On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 11:39:02 AM UTC-5, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > Right now you can have or the other. To me it does not make sense to store > anything client side if you already have to access a pickle object locally. > You only add overhead and risk of exposing data. > >
I think one advantage of moving session data to the client side is scalability. There ought to be a noticeable difference between 100 processes writing to the same filesytem and these computations moved to the client side. > On Tuesday, 16 October 2012 10:59:20 UTC-5, VP wrote: >> >> I think cookie-based sessions is great for many cases. But in some >> cases, it might not be desirable as clients can see what might be secret >> information. >> >> Why not both? Maybe, two types of sessions, client-side and >> server-side sessions. Although both client and server side sessions are >> meant to maintain states, they are appropriate for different things. >> > --
