Michael Newman <newmani...@gmail.com> writes: > On Jan 27, 4:52 pm, Matthias Julius <li...@julius-net.net> wrote: >> mvtango <martin.vir...@gmail.com> writes: >> > my users keep several browser windows open in my application, I need >> > to keep session information for all these windows separate. But I have >> > only one session object - modifying it while the user works in window >> > A and window B in parallel might get me in trouble if Request A and >> > Request B are under way in parallel. >> >> > So I thought about locking the session, modifiying it, saving it >> > during the request. I thought about locking the session at the >> > database level. >> >> > Questions: Anybody run into this? Would locking be the right way to do >> > it? Or are there any other ways of solving this? > > Session data is stored in the database and the ORM. These transactions > are are threadsafe, so you won't run into conditions where browser A > overwrites the newly submitted data from browser B. > > If you need to know know however whether browser A finished before > browser B and browser B had access to the complete transaction in > browser A, you are going to need to set up some logic that checks for > browser A's transaction being done before you allow browser B (i > recommend doing this in validation and not looping or waiting for some > condition). > > Yet another way you can just be super sure is to set up only one > thread and process on your server. This will force the tranactions to > excute in order, but the trade off is speed and flexiblity. Your best > bet is just to program without needing context from browser A's > session to be completed before browser B's.
I understood that he wants independant sessions in two windows of the same browser. And I suspect that browsers don't keep separate (session) cookies for different windows. That's why I think you can't use cookie based sessions to accomplish what he wants. Matthias --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
