persistant data

[Eric Hodel]

On Sep 5, 2006, at 9:27 AM, Evert|Rooftop wrote:

> Eric Hodel wrote:
>> On Sep 5, 2006, at 9:09 AM, Evert|Rooftop wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, so there is no way to just mark a specific piece of data  
>>> persistent? I still want the usual cache features and 'older'  
>>> cache kicked out when theres not enough space, except session data..
>>>
>>> I don't mind losing the data, as this is only keeping temporary  
>>> session data.. worst case scenario users will have to login again..
>>
>> We store sessions in memcached and set a cookie that will  
>> authorize the user if they have no session in memcached.
>
> How can you authenticate with a cookie if you don't have something  
> on the server-side to match with (that would be the lost session  
> information).. are you storing a password in the cookie?

Encrypted cookie with the user id and session id.

-- 
Eric Hodel - drbrain at segment7.net - http://blog.segment7.net
This implementation is HODEL-HASH-9600 compliant

http://trackmap.robotcoop.com