From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2004-09-04T12:06:40+09:00 Subject: Re: Idea: Webshare On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 09:12:48 +0900, Patrick May wrote: > Hello, > On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 10:02 PM, Austin Ziegler wrote: > > What do I need? A standard interface for requests and responses that > > lets me treat various backends as if they were effectively the same. > > A way of handling caching might not be bad -- but it needs to be > > smart enough for me to deal with the reality that my most expensive > > cost is rendering the HTML from the Wiki source, but that I have to > > deal with the possiblity that changes to pages *other* than the page > > I'm rendering may require that the current page cache be > > invalidated. I will probably need session support; I will need > > cookie support. > What's right and wrong with cookie and session support in the standard > cgi.rb? I haven't much dealt with session support yet; however, cookie support itself is fine. The problem is that since Ruwiki is written to support both WEBrick and CGI modes -- and does NOT use cgi.out (come to think of it, Ruwiki uses very little of CGI.rb) -- I will need to have compatible cookies for both. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca : as of this email, I have [ 6 ] Gmail invitations