[ic] how to turn off session id use only cookies

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org]

Quoting Bill Carr (bill@worldwideimpact.com):
> On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 23:03, mike@perusion.com wrote:
> > Quoting Dan Browning (dbml@kavod.com):
> > > At 10:10 PM 9/4/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> > > > >   * (Best solution, IMHO, but probably not very fun)
> > > > >     Build option to have Interchange generate lycos-friendly urls:
> > > > >     ?a=123&b=456  ...into...  /a/eq/123/and/b/eq/456
> > > > >     Utilize Apache ReWrite rules to convert them back
> > > > >     (Or modify IC to read them as well as write them).
> > > >
> > > >     I am using mod_interchange and my urls do not have the ?, for example:
> > > >
> > > >http://store.subcultural.com/subcultural/scan/fi=products/st=db/co=1/sf=prod
> > > >_group/se=dresses/op=re etc...
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the suggestion!  But actually, mod_interchange doesn't really 
> > > address the issue.  You'll notice that the "?id=..." is there on all the 
> > > links the very first page load (first time you open 
> > > store.subcultural.com).  However, if the user has cookies, it is dropped 
> > > from all the rest.
> > > 
> > 
> > IC 4.9 does address this issue with an mv_tmp_session that never 
> > writes the session to disk and never issues an ID or mv_pc. I will
> > look at enhancing that as we go along....
>
> I would also be grateful for the ability to suppress sessions for the
> purpose of my load balancer.

All you have to do in 4.9 is make the access with the parameter 
mv_tmp_session=1 added. No session file.

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Mike Heins
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