Re: [OT] Re: New AWS-based website

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>]

Jacob,

> And now that you've got me started; why to most web developers insist on
> keeping the details of my state hidden inside their system, instead of
> storing the state in cookies?  (It would avoid the whole mess of
> sessions timing out for no apparent reason.  And it would allow the more
> adventurous visitors to adjust the state as needed.)

Because cookies are limited in size and are sent with every request. So
to save bandwidth it is far far better to not use cookie for session
management. It is better to use them as id management and then store the
session data into an internal structure in the server.

BTW, using the Web Block support in AWS it is quite easy to build
complex templeted system with Ajax with an elegant session named
context. Give it a try!

Pascal.

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