[Web-SIG] Sessions and Headers

[Ian Bicking]

Ben Bangert wrote:
> Ian Bicking wrote a WSGI session middleware module that handles  
> sessions completely independently of any framework, though I'm not  
> sure offhand how that'd work with mod_python.

It's nothing to write home about.  Flup has a somewhat better session, 
and an object that is clearly usable outside WSGI; but it only has a 
couple actual stores (e.g., no database), and some room for 
improvements, so it isn't terribly notable either.

There was some talk about this on this list a while ago, but it never 
really went anywhere.  I proposed an interface, but since I lacked 
actual intention to implement it didn't go anywhere either.  But it 
still exists, of course: 
http://svn.colorstudy.com/home/ianb/scarecrow_session_interface.py -- it 
might be useful to an implementor.

In an actually-extracted form, I don't know about any session library 
for Python.  In an extrable form, I'm sure many frameworks have 
something.  An extracted session library would be welcome.  I'm 
personally getting by with a session that is much lamer than the one my 
proposed interface would imply, which is probably fine since I only put 
non-critical data in it anyway.  So a simpler session library would be 
cool too.  I think it should leave out things like configuration, but 
there's still useful functionality to be done.

-- 
Ian Bicking  /  ianb at colorstudy.com  /  http://blog.ianbicking.org