John Gordon wrote:
I'm developing a web application that needs a semi-persistent way to
store information.
I've looked at some options such as writing entries to a database table
or creating small textfiles, but I'm not thrilled with anything I've come
up with so far.
What's the problem?
Then a coworker suggested that I could just insert a cookie into the
current session, which would store whatever information I wanted. This
seems like a really good solution. That's what cookies are *for*, right?
Before using cookies keep in mind that the cookies returned by the
browser are not trustworthy! You have to validate the values each time.
But I've never worked with cookies before. Is there a Python package for
handling cookies?
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-Cookie.html
And are there any back-end requirements?
No.
I assume you
would have to be running a webserver that supports sessions.
You can do this all within your web application.
Do you also
have to be running some sort of web container or servlet engine?
No.
Ciao, Michael.
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