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lib/App/Session/Cookie.pm  view on Meta::CPAN

    $ref->_init($args);

The _init() method looks at the cookies in the request
and restores the session state information from the cookies
named "app_sessiondata" (and "app_sessiondata[2..n]").

When the values of these cookies are concatenated, they
form a Base64-encoded, gzipped, frozen multi-level hash of
session state data.  To retrieve the state data, the text
is therefore decoded, gunzipped, and thawed (a la Storable).

Notes on length of cookies: See

  http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/js/client/jsref/cookies.htm

An excerpt is included here.

The Navigator can receive and store the following:

 * 300 total cookies 

lib/App/Session/HTMLHidden.pm  view on Meta::CPAN

    $ref->_init($args);

The _init() method looks at the CGI variables in the request
and restores the session state information from the variable
named "app.sessiondata" (and "app.sessiondata[2..n]").

When the values of these variables are concatenated, they
form a Base64-encoded, gzipped, frozen multi-level hash of
session state data.  To retrieve the state data, the text
is therefore decoded, gunzipped, and thawed (a la Storable).

TODO: encrypt and MAC

=cut

sub _init {
    &App::sub_entry if ($App::trace);
    my ($self, $args) = @_;
    my ($cgi, $sessiontext, $store, $request);

lib/App/devguide.pod  view on Meta::CPAN

blesses it into the class, calls init()
(App::Session::HTMLHidden->init()),
and then returns the constructed Session::HTMLHidden object.

The init() method looks at the CGI variables in the request
and restores the session state information from the variable
named "app.sessiondata" (and "app.sessiondata[2..n]").
When the values of these variables are concatenated, they
form a Base64-encoded, gzipped, frozen multi-level hash of
session state data.  To retrieve the state data, the text
is therefore decoded, gunzipped, and thawed (a la Storable).
This state is stored in $session->{state} and the session
cache is initialized to an empty hashref.

=head2 cgi-bin/app and dispatching events

The "app" program finally executes the following line.

  $context->dispatch_events();

This does everything necessary to dispatch events which are