Re: how do you maintain state on LVS'ed databases/shopping carts?

[nick garratt <nick-lvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This discussion happens every so often on the list and, as always, I 
feel the need to mention the msession session service which we have 
been using very reliably for years:
http://www.mohawksoft.com/devel/msession.html


It's light-weight, fast and depending on the scripting language you 
use (we're using php4) it is very easy to implement.
Nick


> Joseph Mack wrote:
>
> > We always tell people not to use cookies to maintain state.
> >
> > However, what do people do, and how well does it work/what problems 
> > are there?
> > I'll put it all in the HOWTO.
> >
> > Thanks Joe
>
> I've been involved with a mid sized ecommerce company for about 4 
> years and we've had very few problems using cookies for state 
> (storred in a single backend db.) Its fast and easy...
> If the odd customer doesn't have cookies turned on then they are no 
> great loss.
> Putting the sessionid in the URL i.e. GET is ugly and slightly less secure.
> I guess you could POST it on every page but would that be slower 
> than cookies ? (I think so)
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Malcolm Turnbull
>
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