[cgiapp] Persistence

[Dan Horne]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karen
> Sent: Thursday, 7 February 2008 3:12 p.m.
> To: CGI Application
> Subject: Re: [cgiapp] Persistence
> 
> On 2/6/08, Dan Horne <dan.horne at redbone.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> > Another problem is bookmarks. A user may bookmark a page, but when they
> > come back a couple of days later, the session has expired. They might
> also
> > email a link to others, and that link may not work for the same reason.
> 
> If you want a poster child for this particular evilness, and how it
> can be compounded: Joann.com (fabric/craft chain). You get bloggers
> who post links (craftblogging is a big thing), with their session id,
> and when you read and click, you get taken to a page that informs you
> that the session has expired... and it dumps you to the joann.com home
> page. If you're savvy editing the url, you can go back and edit it to
> get there, but otherwise there is absolutely no way to tell where the
> blogger meant you to go.
> 
I've done some work with a Perl-based ecommerce package called ePages that
used to put the sessionid in the URL. They don't do that in the version I
worked with, but there are plenty of sites around that still use the old URL
session approach...