RE: [Rainbowportal-devel] session state and cookies

[Mark G. <mgr...@gt...>]

I recommend against cookies for modules.

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Use the SessionState, then it will work for people who have cookies
minimised.

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For persistence, I recommend an SQL table.

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Mark

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From: rai...@li...
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Mark McFarlane
Sent: Saturday, 23 April 2005 5:29 PM
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Subject: [Rainbowportal-devel] session state and cookies

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This is a somewhat generic question.

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I have a few variables

1) I want them to be available between pages. =20

2) I want them to be available between sessions (i.e. a persistence of
days)

3) If a variable isn't available, I can set a reasonable default.

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Architecturally it is difficult to add the variables as a URL
parameters, and this won't provide, long-term persistence.

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The new ASP.NET SessionState options for e.g. SQL storage, etc seem
overkill to me.

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Questions

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1) Is it reasonable to use cookies in this case? =20

2) Cookie handling seems like an ideal case for a helper class that can
return a default value if no cookie is found.  Anyone seen such a class
somewhere?

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Mark McFarlane