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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 23:12:36 +0200
From: Sylvain Wallez <sylvain.wallez@anyware-tech.com>
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Conal Tuohy wrote:

>I haven't yet used the flowmap stuff myself, so I have a possibly naive
>question: what would be the flowmap (flowscript?) syntax to return a
>continuation to the client as an http cookie? Is this relatively easy
>compared to url-rewriting?
>  
>

You can't do that, as the cookie has only one value, which makes it 
perfect for session management but unusable for continuations : each new 
page leads to a new continuation. This is how the infamous "back button" 
problem is elegantly solved, and also how you can use what-if browsing 
by trying different possibilities in different windows, thus leading to 
a tree of continuations.

Sylvain

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Sylvain Wallez
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