Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Diff feature request...

[Adam S. <ad...@pe...>]

> I do support something like "who's online" and "who's looking at
> that". timeout is usually 30 minutes. every hit has to update the
> session state (either memory, file or database), propagating the
> session id via url params or cookies.  and every hit has to purge old
> sessions. no big deal.  this way I propagate the user_name and more
> without cookies.

that would actually be kind of a cool feature.  in comparison to what the
wiki already has to do to serve a page how noticeable is the overhead from
using sessions?

if it's minimal what is the downside to using sessions?

adam.