HyperAdmin Session

HyperAdmin: Session

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:
  1. Try to match with existing session:
     • Check for session cookie; if found, use that
     • If no session cookie, look for unexpired IP/browser match
  2. If no usable existing session found, create a new one