Rev in CGI

[Mark Waddingham]

>From what I recall of PHP's implementation of session globals it's
actually really simple - indeed a Transcript library could be written to
do something similar.

When a session is initiated, depending on variables that are set, PHP
creates a unique session identifier and either passes this as a cookie,
a GET variable, or POST variable. Then, on termination of the script, it
writes the values of all the session variables to a file keyed by the
session identifier. Upon loading of the script, if a session identifier
is present in some form as described above, it looks up the session,
does a few security checks and then loads the variables from the
appropriate file.

Obviously, this is quite a terse overview, and some general house-
keeping is needed but the idea is simple enough :o)

Warmest regards,

Mark.

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 06:59 +0100, Terry Vogelaar wrote:
> In my case, I know several other languages to be used for CGI-alike 
> things. I have done things in ASP, PHP, Perl and some less known 
> languages, but none of them make enough sense to compete with Rev CGIs 
> since I discovered that.
> 
> About session globals, there are a lot of techniques to workaround 
> this. Cookies can be used, although I have to investigate how. I often 
> use hidden inputs in HTML-forms and encoded parameters in URLs (like: 
> form.cgi?stack=test&cmd=todo&login=terry&pass=secret)
> 
> Terry
> 
> Op 27-feb-05 om 20:11 heeft Sivakatirswami het volgende geschreven:
> 
> > Confirmed... we have *only* revolution for *all* CGIs on on all our 
> > domains. reason? I don't know any other language. I have yet to find 
> > something I can't do... though PHP's session globals would be nice.
> 
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