Engineering: feedback about LastAccessesURI & redirects

Thursday 22 July 2010 1:42:21 am

Hi developers,

we are currently refactoring our session management in order to implement session-less anonymous users & move away from forced DB based sessions in order to remove this performance bottleneck.

Two commonly used session variables are LastAccessesURI, and LastAccessedModifyingURI. These are set in index.php, after a module/view has correctly executed, and are used as fallback when it comes to redirecting the user after an action.

Using the session for this is quite bad for several reasons (doesn't cope well with multiple browser windows, unusable for sessionless users, etc).

We would like your feedback about your usage of this feature in your extensions & work, so that we figure out the best way to replace this feature, and how it should be deprecated (if deprecated at all).

Bertrand Dunogier
eZ Systems Engineering, Lyon
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Thursday 22 July 2010 2:55:14 am

- putting things in session is bad. for perfs, and for tabs. Putting things into cookies is better, but unless we find a way to make it cope with multiple tabs open, it basically means you have to carry that info around appending it to your urls everywhere (argh)

- the best way to avoid having to stuff LastAccessesURI in every url is to add it as post var and make every view that redirects accept that parameter - that would be a huge boon in any case

- please make an ini setting that allows the site owner to switch back to always-use-a-session-for-anon-users if he wants. I think we have users that like to track their site visitors in a very detailed way - or extensions that just assume that a session is always there

Principal Consultant International Business
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Thursday 22 July 2010 3:10:54 am

Standardised POST variable sounds good to me.

Andrew Duck, Executive Director, Quiqcorp Limited
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