Re: cvs: php4 /ext/session session.c

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Sascha Schumann wrote: > First and foremost, I have no reason to believe that this API > is necessary. You declined to give me a reasonable answer > when asked for such an explanation. Stating "we think we > might need this somewhen in the future, if we don't figure > out that our concept is broken in the meantime" does not > convince me. And second, adding publicly-exposed APIs puts a > burden on the maintainers of an extension. I don't want go > down that road without sensible reasoning from you who > requested this API. As I asked you on August 14, 2001: > From: Derick Rethans <d.rethans@jdimedia.nl> > To: Sascha Schumann <sascha@schumann.cx> > Subject: Re: Session module (fwd) > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Sascha Schumann wrote: > > > From a storage handler? No. Why would you want to do that? > > Cannot you do that using a request startup handler? > > Well, there is a remote possibilty that two different servers generate > the same Session ID and that this session ID is then used with the SRM > Module. Because the SRM Deamon identifies connections by session ID, > this will cause problems. That's why I want SRM to hand out the Session > ID's. And "we think we might need this somewhen in the future, if we don't figure out that our concept is broken in the meantime" is not true, we know we need it now. regards, Derick --------------------------------------------------------------------- PHP: Scripting the Web - www.php.net - derick@php.net SRM: Site Resource Manager - www.vl-srm.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- JDI Media Solutions - www.jdimedia.nl - d.rethans@jdimedia.nl Boulevard Heuvelink 102 - 6828 KT Arnhem - The Netherlands ---------------------------------------------------------------------