Q: how to implement a network connection per user session

[Sundar Narasimhan <su...@itasoftware.com>]

Hi, I've been using Apache::Session w/ mod_perl which seems to work nicely.
But I have a question -- this seems to be mostly for data. What about say
a network connection (i.e. I'd like to have one connection per user session
to a back-end server. The db persistent connections sort of do this I 
presume
but they don't seem to be per session.).

Thoughts? (or do I have to go the tomcat/servlet route?)

Thanks,
-Sundar


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Re: Q: how to implement a network connection per user session

[David Nicol <da...@gmail.com>]

i am not much of a mp hacker but as I understand it,  one problem with
making per-session persistent connections would be that there is no guarantee
that future requests in the same apache session will be handled by the same
mod_perl process.  This means that any backend that provided what you are asking
for would need to be shared among all the mp processes.  The new request would
check its session ID, then connect to the db session multiplexor and provide the
session credential.

Contact me off-list if you'd like to sponsor creation of this daemon,
if it hasn't been
done already I could set it up.


On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 17:30:35 -0500, Sundar Narasimhan
<su...@itasoftware.com> wrote:
> Hi, I've been using Apache::Session w/ mod_perl which seems to work nicely.
> But I have a question -- this seems to be mostly for data. What about say
> a network connection (i.e. I'd like to have one connection per user session
> to a back-end server. The db persistent connections sort of do this I
> presume
> but they don't seem to be per session.).
> 
> Thoughts? (or do I have to go the tomcat/servlet route?)
> 
> Thanks,
> -Sundar
> 
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