[Zope-CMF] Using sessions in CMF

[Janko Hauser]

On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 16:24:42 +0200
"Gitte Wange" <gitte at mmmanager.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Thanks to all the creative ideas I got in the thread 'Understanding
> the login mechanism' - no I haven't found a solution yet :-(
> 
> But in my search for a solution I have comed to the idea of trying
> to use sessions. It seems like a good idea :-)
> 
> Some years ago I mingled around with PHP and I created a login
> method that used sessions - is it possible to do the same thing in
> CMF (Zope)? If so - how ?
> I guess you have to make some extensions to CookieCrumbler and the
> cookie-based login - this is easily done with the
> PluggableUserFolder.
> 
> Where do I start digging around to implement session stuff?
> I have looked at the "Sessions" chapter in the Zope Book and I think
> I got the hang on sessions.
> But what info do I need to store in the session object in order to
> make sure people are properly logged in ?
> 
> Hope there's someone out there with some hints :)
> 
Most of the current login methods are already using sessions,
especially cookiecrumbler is introduced to wrap basic_auth in a
session.

So I do not really understand the question.

__Janko


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