We want to be able to save a user's web session when they login to a website. Is there a session variable available to use for this? What is the best way to handle this? We are using oi versions 7.2.1 and 8.0.7. Thanks.

Dave

As you're just running basic programs you can look after this yourself using cookies or obfuscated URLs and writes to internal tables. There is nothing intrinsic to the product though we just use the same session management framework for all of our implementations.

Remember not to make basic mistakes like using sequential counters for session ids (allows people to hijack sessions easily) or carrying around meaningful information in the cookies. If you're only using one engine to drive the web you can make use of labelled common to save having to write session info to disk but as this scenario is so uncommon most session tracking requires disk writes.

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