Re: static variables across HTTP calls

Hi

> I am writing an application using the web toolkit and am trying to find a way
> of storing a package variable to preserve it's value between HTTP calls.
> Specifically I want to store a User ID from a login screen after clicking on
> the form submit button. I know that cookies can be used for this purpose but
> are not really suitable for my purposes since they are stored on the client
> and can be modified manually.
>
> A possible solution might involve using some sort of 'current session id'
> type variable that would allow me to store the variable contents in a table
> with the session_id as key field though I don't know how to do this.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions then I would be very grateful.

Session cookies, which are cookies without an expiration date cannot be manually changed, they exist only for the current seesion

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