[Web-SIG] Session interface

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Tue Aug 16 18:55:16 CEST 2005


At 11:28 AM 8/16/2005 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
>I wrote a possible interface for sessions:
>http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/CodeDoc/Apache-mod_perl_guide/src/modules.html

Um, wha?


>Session:
>    An instance of this represents one user/browser's session.
>SessionStore:
>    An instance of this represents the persistence mechanism.  This
>    is a functional component, not embodying any policy.
>SessionManager:
>    This is a container for sessions, and uses a SessionStore.  This
>    contains all the policy for loading, saving, locking, expiring
>    sessions.

Which of these is responsible for managing client-side state?  (i.e. cookie 
reading, setting, expiration, and refresh?)

Maybe this is clearer in what you actually wrote, but the link above gives 
no clue.  :)



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