Karen Coyle schrieb:
> I don't recall the details, but something in the back of my mind is
> telling me that the sessions exist because we didn't want vendors to use
> cookies on public access terminals.
To link to a single record, you don't need any session handling (so you
don't need any cookies or session parameters). HTTP is so powerful
because it is stateless...
All this session fuss in OPAC products is because legacy library systems
and their OPACs (or at least there concepts) are coming from an age when
HTTP wasn't well understood (if it was already there...). And looking at
some "new" products put on the market recently, I doubt some have done
anything to improve their understanding of the web...
Look at VuFind or Blacklight (that are using a stateless search server
(Solr) in the back): You don't need any session handling to search and
display records on the web...
Till
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Received on Mon Oct 26 2009 - 03:49:55 EDT