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What is the session about simplicity that Martin Odersky suggested during the “Scala with style” talk? [closed]
The video of Scala with style is here: http://parleys.com/play/51c1994ae4b0d38b54f4621b/chapter21/about
It's around 41:10 that he suggested another talk.
I can not hear the name of speaker or the ...
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How to store Role Based Access rights in web application?
Currently working on a web based CRM type system that deals with various Modules such as Companies, Contacts, Projects, Sub Projects, etc. A typical CRM type system (asp.net web form, C#, SQL Server ...
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How does session middleware generally verify browser sessions?
I've been using session middleware to build web apps for years: from PHP's built-in session handling layer to node's connect session middleware. However, I've never tried (or needed) to roll my own ...
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How to implement proper identification and session managent on json post requests?
I have some minor messaging connection to server from website via json requests. I have single endpoint which distributes requests according to identification data. I am using asynchronous server and ...
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Session serialization in JavaEE environment
Please consider the following scenario:
We are working on a JavaEE project for which the scalability starts to become an issue. Up until now, we were able to scale up but this is no longer an option. ...
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How to authenticate user on php and Node.js
I´m currently developing a little chat page. The main page and user management is written in php and also all the authentication stuff with sessions.
Now I´m planning to run the messaging stuff on a ...
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Storing session in a static variable?
I'm currently checking a older piece of C# code used to maintain a login session.
public static ZRWebserviceSession CurrentSession { get { return _currSession; } set { _currSession = value; } }
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How can I handle Bots in a site that creates a database item every page
I have an eCommerce platform that creates a basket as soon as the user lands on the site if they don't already have one (from session or cookies). It then stores the basket information in session and ...
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Session states in ajax callback
Someone told me Session or HttpContext.Current.User will return different value when we are working with ajax postback, in case of when the are so many user are live to site.
For example, suppose ...
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HTTP Session: A single object or multiple?
I tested two approaches to store session data:
The classic: 1 key, 1 object (And every key as static final String in a class)
"user" --> UserObject
"preferences" --> List
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An ...
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Should I save a simple list cookie in Javascript or PHP?
I am currently making a simple list tool. You can click a checkbox to mark it as done and if you navigate away from the page/close the browser and reload, it will still be saved. So it's pretty much ...
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Why can python webapps keep sessions between restart and not java?
I've used both webapp2 + GAE for python and a number of Java/JEE webapp frameworks. The python WSGI framework could keep users logged in while I redeploy the app while none of the Java web framework ...
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J2EE - Session swap
Application server - JBoss AS 7.1.1
JDK6
J2EE 1.3
My web application is more than 10 years old and facing this session swap problem in my portal. Noticed
that swap happens mostly when many ...
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Session management in a Service Oriented Architecture
Where should you manage a users session in a SOA? Should you manage it in the Web Service or in the client and why?
My application is SPA
(Considering that this will be the stacked that will be used
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Best practices for using HTTP sessions(Java)
My Question is not about how to use HTTP session or how values are being used in session. Question is more oriented about approach.
In my current application there are few values being stored in the ...
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anonymous checkout
Working on a E-commerce solution where I need to handle checkout based on anonymous customer and as of now I am not able to think properly how best this can be implemented.
Our ShoppingCart is being ...
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How deterministic are SessionIDs from SHA'd GUIDs?
Assume I'm using the following code to generate pseudo-random sessionID's:
sessionID = SHA-512(GENERATE-GUID())
The GUIDs are pretty deterministic, i.e. I see lots of GUIDs with a lot of the same ...
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How to test issues in a local development environment that can only be introduced by clustering in production?
We recently clustered an application, and it came to light that because of how we're doing SSL offloading via the load balancer in production it didn't work right. I had to mimic this functionality on ...
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Session in RESTful web services, how it works?
In a web services, how does the server know which request belongs to which session?
I know that for a web application, the web server inspects the cookie (or the sessonId query parameter in case ...
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RequestContextHolder.currentRequestAttributes() and accessing HTTP Session
Need to access HTTP session for fetching as well storing some information.I am using Spring-MVC for my application and i have 2 options here.
User Request/ Session in my Controller method and do my ...
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Storing large data in HTTP Session (Java Application)
I am asking this question in continuation with http-session-or-database-approach.
I am planning to follow this approach.
When user add product to cart, create a Cart Model, add items to cart and ...
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Collecting and sweeping of session-dependent uploads
I develop a Java web application with an upload-feature. The upload is devided into two parts:
During a user-session the user can upload files at any time while navigating through the whole site.
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session persisting problem after system restart
Is there a way to prevent session id restore on startup/restart of user's system?
We are using a asp.net app and I am able to login and access the site. For the first time session id is created and ...
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ASP.NET How much session dependence is too much?
Bit of Background:
I'm currently working on a ReportViewer project for my company. I'm using MVC3 and ReportViewer Control (Microsoft 2010 version). I have the user select their report from a list of ...
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User Authentication & Session Management
One of the fundamental ways of handling user login authentication & session management is by storing variables in Session space plus setting some data in cookies on client computer while sometimes ...
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Controlling cookies with many tabs
I have a peculiar problem. My application has different levels of authentication. One specific level of user (super user) needs to be able to use the application as another user (subordinate user) ...
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How to implement session state in a backend web application?
When using a non-MVC service-oriented/Interactor pattern approach to decoupled system architecture, how is session state implemented?
I've been thinking of building the frontend of an application ...
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HTTP Session or Database approach
I am confused a little as what should be my approach, Working on a design of shopping cart and i need to store shopping cart either in session or in database but not sure which approach would be ...
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How to avoid repetitively logging in to web site?
While developing web sites it can be annoying that I have to login to the site.
Every time the session runs out I have to go through a flow like...
Open logon page -> enter username/password -> click ...
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Connecting with OAuth, dealing with logout and browser sessions
I work on a open-source web application (Moodle) which connects to a number of external services such as Google Drive, Dropbox etc. to allow users to exchange files with these services.
Primarily we ...
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User session timeout handling in SaaS apps - discussing several approaches
I know this has a great chance of being marked as duplicate, but couldn't find exactly what I'm looking for
This is a common problem and I'm sure it has some well defined best practice solution
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should F12's request headers show session id as cookie?
I'm trying to educate myself on potential web attacks. I just found a site (which will rename anonymous) where it shows me what looks to be like the php session id inside the cookies section of the ...
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Why can't WARs share session info?
I have seen several developers looking for a solution for this problem: accessing session information from a different WAR (even when inside the same EAR) - here are some samples: Any way to share ...
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Understanding HTTP Cookies in Indy 10 for Delphi XE2
I have been working with Indy 10 HTTP Servers / Clients lately in Delphi XE2, and I need to make sure I'm understanding session management correctly. In the server, I have a "bucket" of sessions, ...
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Are session aware Models a bad thing?
I'm thinking specifically in Rails here, but I suspect this is a wider question.
In a Rails web application I'm using data from the session in models in order that the models know who is logged in. I ...
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Results stored in a session - good idea?
To give a bit of background, lets say it's a generic results page, which is paginated so there are X results per page.
Generally to do this, I have two queries on the page:
to get the total number ...
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What is the most reliable session storage in PHP: Memcache, database or files?
What is the best and most safest way to handle PHP sessions. Is the best way to store sessions in:
Database (more reliable, but high bottleneck, slow speed, not good for high database usage ...
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Is restricting sessions to an absolute IP likely to have a wide impact on mobile networks?
Our website currently restricts a cookie-based session to the IP address that was originally sent the Set-Cookie HTTP header. In the past a user's IP would rarely change, so this didn't present much ...
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What are the best practices to use NHiberante sessions in asp.net (mvc/web api) ?
I have the following setup in my project:
public class WebApiApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication
{
public static ISessionFactory SessionFactory { get; private set; }
public ...
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Why do popular websites store very complicated session-related data in cookies — and what does it all mean?
As web developers, we all learn that sessions help overcome the problems related to the stateless nature of HTTP. We create a unique session id, and send it to the browser -- and when the browser ...
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Alternatives to using cookies?
Whate are alternatives to using cookies/client-side storage for a PHP/MySQL based site on Apache.
Scenario/Requirements:
I want to try using some anti-bot code to prevent specific scrapers etc. ...
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Session size management
From what I know, the session information is usually saved on the server.
In Java the data is handled as a Map which I guess contains the a String identifier and an object reference which points to a ...
