Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-xml-cocoon-dev-archive@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 43756 invoked by uid 500); 19 Jun 2002 07:24:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cocoon-dev-help@xml.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Reply-To: cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 43743 invoked from network); 19 Jun 2002 07:24:45 -0000 Message-ID: <3D1031EF.2030901@anyware-tech.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:25:35 +0200 From: Sylvain Wallez Organization: Anyware Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: fr, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org Subject: Re: Continuation as cookie? (was RE: [RT] Flowmaps) References: <021a01c21717$e2ffd960$0a00a8c0@vgritsenkopc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Vadim Gritsenko wrote: >>From: Sylvain Wallez [mailto:sylvain.wallez@anyware-tech.com] >> >>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 >> >> > >I'd like to oppose, can I? :) > > Of course you can ! >>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 >> >> > >I could imagine application which has one and only continuation per >client. In this scenario, when client hits "Back" button, application >shows to the user *same*, *current* page but not *previous* page. > >If you add continuation persistence on server side... In *this* >scenario, cookies *do* make sense. Don't you agree? > > Yes, cookies do make sense for this. But in that case, do you really need continuations ? IIRC, Ovidiu already talked about this, but I don't remember exactly what he said. Ovidiu, what's your opinion on the above ? >>by trying different possibilities in different windows, thus leading to a tree of continuations. >> >> > >Just suppose for a moment that your app requires one and only continuation. > > Don't you call it a "session", then ? >Mmm... I already see where it can be used... :) > Teasing, teasing ;) Please tell us more ! Sylvain -- Sylvain Wallez Anyware Technologies Apache Cocoon http://www.anyware-tech.com mailto:sylvain@apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: cocoon-dev-unsubscribe@xml.apache.org For additional commands, email: cocoon-dev-help@xml.apache.org