[Zope] Preserving Settings during a user's session

Theodore Patrick tpatrick@IndigoNetworks.com
Wed, 24 Feb 1999 14:17:10 -0600


Amazon has accomplished this by providing a post request variable. ie
www.amazon.com/?4834938348934

Go to their site and look at the method. It is fairly straight forward.

They use an identifier that is dynamic per user across sessions. The
accomplish it via cookies and consistently using the uid(userid) variable in
the same location.

Zope has an advantage here because you can reference the cgi request
variables without CGI:

ZOPE DOCS:
http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Guides/DTML/DTML-HTML/DTML.html#29461

use the QUERY_STRING variable to save session variables.
use cookies to save the id across sessions. <---The combination is Amazon's
Solution

Just a thought. 2cents worth!

Theodore E. Patrick
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