1 Session Support in WebStack
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4 Various frameworks do not support sessions. In order to provide primitive
5 support for sessions within WebStack upon such frameworks, the
6 WebStack.Helpers.Session module is used to provide a simple file-based session
7 store. It is necessary to create a directory called WebStack-sessions in a
8 particular location for the session store to function, and the location depends
9 on the framework as summarised in the following table.
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11 Framework Location
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13 BaseHTTPRequestHandler The directory where the server is run.
14 CGI The directory where the handler resides.
15 mod_python The server root (eg. /usr/local/apache2).
16 Twisted The directory where the server is run.
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18 Note that the WebStack-sessions directory must have the appropriate ownership
19 and privileges necessary for the server/framework to write session files into
20 it.
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22 Unsupported Frameworks and Framework Issues
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25 Webware 0.8.1 has problems creating sessions and is therefore not supported.
26 Webware releases later than 0.8.1 (at least until the 2004-02-06 CVS snapshot
27 used for testing) do not support session detection or expiry correctly.
