Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to How to keep trace of server-side state?

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Posted by Patrick Giagnocavo on
I would think that one way to solve this would be to use sessionid's encoded in the URL.

First request: give a sessionid, store it in a nsv shared variable, redirect to URL + sessionid.

Second request:  the sessionid is already there, so you store the info and serve the page.

Advantages:  no cookies, and you can expire sessions when you want them to (never expire, expire in 4 hours, etc.).

Disadvantages:  you have to parse the HTML pages one way or another and modify the URLs to have the sessionid in the links, OR, do the first request/second request each time a new page is requested.