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Maintain session info with Perl & MySQL

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by maryweilage

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What do you think of Phillip's approach to managing session state on a Web farm using Perl and MySQL, as featured in the Jan. 21 edition of our Web Development Zone newsletter? Is this development topic relevant to the work you're currently doing orwill be doing in the future?

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by jimfredd

Maybe I'm missing something here, but shouldn't it be web fOrm rather than web fArm?

by phil_perkins_1

A web farm is a group of web servers used to balance the payload on a particular web site. When you are making a request to a web site, that site might be hosted by several servers. In this case, when you make one request one moment, and you make a subsequent request, you may not be directed to the same physical machine. This is what makes Session variables so unreliable.

by solrak29

Noted in article is that "development process", but in actuality the artical is describing the "design". To formulate how you attained your designed would be "architecture"....

If just throws me off when people say here is my development processwhen in actuallity they're are discussing design details.

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