[hunchentoot-devel] mod_lisp anyone?

[Robert Synnott]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Hans Hübner <hans at huebner.org> wrote:
> 2008/4/9, Andy Chambers <achambers.home at googlemail.com>:
>
> > How hard would it be to make sessions work independently of
>  >  hunchentoot?  I'd like (or rather Kenny would like) to make my openAIR
>  >  stuff work with aserve.  Aserve does have webactions but it seems to
>  >  involve more than just sessions.  They have a concept of "managed
>  >  pages" which doesn't really fit with the way I've done things so far.
>  >
>  >  I made a half-hearted attempt at just copying sessions.lisp and
>  >  specials.lisp into my own project but it seemed like if I was actually
>  >  going to make it work, I'd end up with all the same dependencies as
>  >  hunch anyway so what would be the point.
>
>  I'd recommend that you implement your own session management scheme
>  based on cookies - It is not a hard thing to do and will propably be
>  easier than to factor out the sessions specific parts of Hunchentoot
>  into something that could be reused with Aserve.  I don't know
>  anything about your target audience, but if you don't try to support
>  people who have switched off Cookies, handling sessions is rather
>  easy.
>
>
The current sessions aren't suited to all cases, anyway; in
particular, they're not suitable for a system with multiple frontend
machines unless you're binding users to a specific machine on login
(which carries its own problems with it).
Rob.