Comments on: Frameworks that start sessions for every visitor make me sad http://micropipes.com/blog/2008/03/06/frameworks-that-start-sessions-for-every-visitor-make-me-sad/ because at 3am anything sounds good Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:46:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Fred Wenzel http://micropipes.com/blog/2008/03/06/frameworks-that-start-sessions-for-every-visitor-make-me-sad/#comment-2700 Fred Wenzel Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:14:32 +0000 http://micropipes.com/blog/2008/03/06/frameworks-that-start-sessions-for-every-visitor-make-me-sad/#comment-2700 I remember myself filing a bug with Cake a long time ago that complained about the inability to start a session manually when you disable automatic session starting. Many months later, it was closed fixed without any further comment (so I am still unsure how this was indeed fixed). In any case it's sad to open a session for everyone, as it adds a bunch of unnecessary overhead (I am inclined to say that most pages that are divided into public/private, or are even completely public don't need a session for anonymous users). Thus, dear framework developers: Please default to manual (well, "assisted") session handling instead of forcing AUTO_SESSION on and then not providing a way to really, really disable this "feature". I remember myself filing a bug with Cake a long time ago that complained about the inability to start a session manually when you disable automatic session starting. Many months later, it was closed fixed without any further comment (so I am still unsure how this was indeed fixed).

In any case it’s sad to open a session for everyone, as it adds a bunch of unnecessary overhead (I am inclined to say that most pages that are divided into public/private, or are even completely public don’t need a session for anonymous users).

Thus, dear framework developers: Please default to manual (well, “assisted”) session handling instead of forcing AUTO_SESSION on and then not providing a way to really, really disable this “feature”.

]]> By: Jose http://micropipes.com/blog/2008/03/06/frameworks-that-start-sessions-for-every-visitor-make-me-sad/#comment-2371 Jose Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:35:01 +0000 http://micropipes.com/blog/2008/03/06/frameworks-that-start-sessions-for-every-visitor-make-me-sad/#comment-2371 Did you file a bug in cakephp trac system? Yeah, I love using cakephp because it helps speed up development, but sometimes bugs with SESSION like this one really become a pita :( . Did you file a bug in cakephp trac system?

Yeah, I love using cakephp because it helps speed up development, but sometimes bugs with SESSION like this one really become a pita :( .

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