<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Dave Gurnell <<a href="mailto:d.j.gurnell@gmail.com">d.j.gurnell@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> FWIW: We've put together a simple little library for this called "session cells": - cookie stores a random "session ID"; - each session cell is a struct with a "cell ID" in it; - there's a global hash table of session IDs to "session tables"; - a session table is a hash of cell IDs to values. I like this solution for the simplicity of the interface and the consistency with web cells. Two things that require careful thought: - setting up the session cookie (a dispatcher stage would be good for this); - garbage collection (we use a several hour timeout... there may be a better approach). Our code is all rolled up as part of a larger web toolkit but it wouldn't take long to extract if you're interested. -- Dave </blockquote><div> Sounds good; quite possibly better than our solution. If you have time to extract / package / submit it, I'll gladly leave pride of place to you. We're an unfunded startup, so finding even a couple of hours is a bit of a scramble. Dave K </div></div>