Re: Statefulness (was ...URL...)

At 2:34 AM 12/1/95, Darren New wrote:
>> Using the username/password as an identificator for a server-side session
>> state object.
>
>Unfortunately, the server can't set that.  It would be nice if it could,
>but you have to get the user to type it in, which can be annoying.

True, but it is one of the "tools in your toolkit" if you want to get
around that there are no clean, standard support for sessions. Until such
support is available, you will be post off if your application handles
various methods to create a session depending on what is available and most
useful for the particular situation.

-- Terje <Norderhaug.CHI@Xerox.com>
   <URL:http://www.ifi.uio.no/~terjen/>

Received on Friday, 1 December 1995 16:39:50 UTC