From: Sean Chittenden <sean@...>
Date: 2002-04-08T12:22:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Switching from PHP to Ruby - Comments Please

> > >  3) Session management can be done as implicitly with or without 
> > >     cookies as PHP4.
> > 
> >     Check out CGI.rb, it should have what you're looking for.  -sc
> 
> I did, but I am looking for a shorter answer. In PHP4, I can write
> code that uses sessions, where the session ID is obtained from a
> cookie or a GET/POST variable if cookies are turned off by the user.
> In addition, if a user has cookies turned off, PHP4 will rewrite the
> URL so the session ID is in the URL. Since I don't won't to require
> cookies, this it a very nice feature to have. Does
> session.rb/mod_ruby do this? That is, rewrite URLs when cookies are
> turned off and collect session id's from either cookies or GET/POST
> variables?

I believe that cgi.rb does this, but I don't know for sure.
Eventually I'll release ruby-session which will do exactly what you're
talking about... I just haven't had time to finish it up (trying to
get ties into rb_spread and DBI).  -sc

-- 
Sean Chittenden