[mod_python] Configuring Session.Session

Wayne Pierce shalofin at gmail.com
Wed Jun 29 11:50:07 EDT 2005


After hitting send I realized the last message only went to Graham...

On 6/29/05, Wayne Pierce <shalofin at gmail.com> wrote:
> It works for me with both ApplicationPath and the explicity
> PythonHandler for each directory.  One of my applications (which I
> can't change yet) is running off the web root; so all the other
> applications are technically under that app.
> 
> For archival purposes, here are the relevant lines in my
> .../conf.d/python.conf file:
> 
> <Directory "/var/www/html">
>     AddHandler mod_python .psp
>     PythonHandler mod_python.psp
>     PythonOption ApplicationPath /var/www/html
>     PythonDebug Off
> </Directory>
> 
> <Directory "/var/www/html/dev/chblmd">
>     AddHandler mod_python .psp
>     PythonHandler mod_python.psp
>     PythonOption ApplicationPath /var/www/html/dev/chblmd
>     PythonDebug Off
> </Directory>
> 
> Thanks for all the help,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On 6/28/05, Graham Dumpleton <grahamd at dscpl.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > On 29/06/2005, at 8:06 AM, dharana wrote:
> >
> > > Graham Dumpleton wrote:
> > >> At a quick glance I can't see how this may or may not be used by the
> > >> Session
> > >> implementation, but isn't it possible to tie cookies to a particular
> > >> path
> > >> within in a domain? If the session was somehow associated with a
> > >> path, eg.
> > >> the handler root, could different session IDs for different parts of
> > >> the
> > >> documentation tree simply be kept separate by appropriate use of
> > >> Handler
> > >> directive in the root of each separate application context. How does
> > >> the
> > >> existing ApplicationPath option come into this? Never exactly
> > >> understood
> > >> what it did and thought that it was something related to having
> > >> different
> > >> session contexts? Seems to me that this might be better than fudging
> > >> what
> > >> name the session cookie uses.
> > >
> > > It seems Nicolas was faster.
> >
> > Faster in what respect? What is better, a quick answer or a correct
> > answer? :-)
> >
> > Although I did notice that Nicolas' reply to my ApplicationPath mail
> > got to
> > me before my original even came back from the mailing list. Spooky.
> >
> > > Anyways, I don't believe it will hurt to have the cookie name
> > > configurable btw.
> >
> > One also shouldn't let rampant featureism creep in either. If there is
> > already
> > one good way of doing things, one shouldn't be adding in new stuff just
> > for the
> > sake of it. In practice I don't feel that the ability to change the
> > cookie name
> > would get used. The only good reason I can see for the ability to
> > change the
> > name is to eliminate "py" out of the cookie name to hide the fact that
> > Python
> > is used in an implementation of a site. I don't believe one gains
> > anything
> > more than that from the feature given that ApplicationPath already
> > provides a
> > better solution.
> >
> > Graham
> >
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