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A session is when a particular user is connected to HyperAdmin using a particular browser on a particular computer.
A session also helps keep track of immediate user preferences, e.g. searching only certain item types or topics.
There is more discussion of Sessions in the context of a shopping cart system (for which HyperAdmin was, in part, designed) in vbzwiki:VbzCart.
Sequence of Events
- On load of any session-enabled page:
- Try to match with existing session:
- Check for session cookie; if found, use that
- If no session cookie, look for unexpired IP/browser match
- If no usable existing session found, create a new one
- Try to match with existing session:
