[Zope] Cookie Cutter Product

Tony McDonald tony.mcdonald@ncl.ac.uk
Sat, 03 Apr 1999 08:57:20 +0100


> CookieCutter Product.
>   The CookieCutter Product manages a dictionary of objects. The
> objects are assigned to the dictionary keys, pickled, and added to
> REPONSE.cookies. It is unpickled from REQUEST.cookies and, if desired,
> the dictionary items are mapped into the REQUEST namespace where they
> can be then used as normal attributes. This allows the storage of a
> number of arbitrary objects in a single cookie. Cookies have a 4KB
> limit so I don't know how far this can go before either the browser or the
> user gags but, for what I'm using it for anyway, it works well.
>
> I'm still a bit new at all this so, for all I know, it could be a really
> braindead idea.
> Is anyone interested?
> Comments?
>
> John Jarvis
> Tokyo Electron FE, Ltd.

John,
It certainly doesn't sound braindead to me.

I for one would like to see what this product can do - have you thought
about contributing it to http://www.zope.org/Download/Contrib ?

cheers,
tone