Re: Annoucing memcache-ada 0.1

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

"Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:

>                                                 there is *never*
> something like stateful with web process. This is a fundamental
> consequence of the  client browsing process. “Stateful web server”
> concept makes no sense. As  the user can go back and forward in
> his/her navigation history, the only  possible state must be stored in
> pages stored in the browser, and if ever  needed, these states
> informations must be transmitted to the web server  via POST
> (preferably, personal feeling). In the web, there is a per-page  state
> at the client side, not a per-cession state at the server side.

Using AJAX, there is certainly state within one page... but even
excluding that, there clearly _is_ per-session state on the server; of
course, the browser has to identify the session concerned before the
server can know where to continue from.