https://www.webmaster-forums.net/crss/node/1020279 en https://www.webmaster-forums.net/serverside-scripting/cookie-or-not-cookie#comment-1123956 <p>I just came across an O'Reilly book titled: "Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C" which seems to explain the pros and cons of hidden form elements vs. cookies vs. server-side-persistence methods (sessions). Looks like I may be implementing my first real database after all!</p> <p><a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wrapmod/" class="bb-url">http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wrapmod/</a></p> Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:35:08 +0000 critical comment 1123956 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net https://www.webmaster-forums.net/serverside-scripting/cookie-or-not-cookie#comment-1123955 <p>Perl, Red Hat Linux server, no database other than reading/writing to flat text files</p> Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:42:10 +0000 critical comment 1123955 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net https://www.webmaster-forums.net/serverside-scripting/cookie-or-not-cookie#comment-1123952 <p>You could make your own fake sessions. I don't know what language you'll be using, so I'll pseudocode it...</p> <p>check user's machine for _cookie_<br /> if ( _cookie_ ) {</p> <p>sql: delete from session_table where last_active&gt;15_minutes_ago<br /> sql: select * from session_table where session_id=_cookie_</p> <p>if ( _recordset_ ) {</p> <p>obtain _authentication_ for user</p> <p>}</p> <p>}</p> <p>if ( no _authentication_ ) {</p> <p>prompt for login<br /> sql: insert into session_table</p> <p>}</p> Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:28:13 +0000 Mark Hensler comment 1123952 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net https://www.webmaster-forums.net/serverside-scripting/cookie-or-not-cookie#comment-1123949 <p>Sessions is the other option.</p> Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:17:51 +0000 Suzanne comment 1123949 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net