Re: CGI Session management (was Re: the CGI.pm in Perl 6)

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 13:31:55 -0700, Michael Snoyman wrote:

> I agree  completely.  In that vein, I think that one thing a lot of web
> developers would like to have available more easily would be session
> management.  In PHP it's as simple as $_SESSION['key'] = 'value'.  I
> understand that CGI.pm is a fundemantally different concept from PHP and
> that this can't be completely taken care of by the module.  Still, if
> something could be written in, I think it would make many people's lives
> simpler.

Pleeeeeaseeeee... nooooo...

There are *so* many ways to do session handling that lugging them
all into CGI.pm will just make a mess.

It'd work much better as mixin plugins of some sort. I'd be happy to
discuss my conclusions from redesigning the Catalyst session
handling, if you like.

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  Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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