On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Memcached*
Our $_SESSION simply lives in memcached. So we could do $fake_session = $wgMemc->get( wfMemcKey( 'session', $session_id ) ) ; $fake_session["upload_ok"] = true; $wgMemc->set( wfMemcKey( 'session', $session_id ), $fake_session, 3600 ) ;
This means that if a memcached server goes down, the information will be lost. The database is the correct place to put this. (Also the correct place to put sessions, for that matter . . .)
Also, on places where no memcached or equivalent is available (i.e. CACHE_NONE), this will not work. I think the loss of session data due to memcached breakage was found to be acceptable. Does anybody have some references for this?
Bryan