[mv] Setting MV session ID from outside of Minivend.

[Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com>]

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In reference to the below problem, I'm investigating the solution of
moving my front page outside of minivend space. However, since I'm using
other parts of minivend, it makes sense to continue to use the MV
session system. As such I would like to include the minivend logic of
"if there is no session id, set a new one". I assume there is a way to
do this from the command line, or by including the Minivend Perl Modules
and calling the routine directly. 
 I tried the command line route and that didn't work:

<snip>
music@secure dev>./market.cgi market-dev '[data products title 20]'
Status: 404 Not Found
Content-Type: text/plain

Undefined catalog: music@secure dev>
</snip>

I made sure there was an alias for "market-dev" in minivend.cfg before I
tried that. 

Anyway, does anyone have examples or ideas about how to do this? I found
the new_session and init_session routines that seemed relevent, but it
looked like I might need some logic from the main minivend script that
wasn't bundled into subroutine... 

 Thanks!
   
    -mark


Mark Stosberg wrote:
> 
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> 
> Hello!
> 
>   I'm developing a project with MV4, using a mix of custom Perl/SQL and
> Minivend pages. I've noticed over several tries that when I load the
> Minivend index.html page the first time, it takes about 8 seconds (which
> seems mostly to be on the server side) the first time I connect and then
> 1 or 2 seconds for loads of that page after that.
>   I'm connected over a fast LAN to the server so I think I think can
> take my connection speed out of the equation. :)
>   I did some poking around with "top" to see what was happening during
> those 8 seconds. From what I can tell, it appears minivend is inactive
> until the very end, when it pops up for just a second, does it's thing,
> and then sleeps again. My front page is very basic, no database calls. I
> would imagine the only thing Minivend is doing is creating a session id.
>   So then, my intuition leads me to think it's something do with
> networking. I'm running on FreeBSD 3.1 in INET mode. (When I run in Unix
> mode I get "server unavailable pages". I think this has something do
> with my Apache/SuExec configuration ).
> 
>   I read the docs on performance issues, but I'm still interested in
> some further feedback. Do other people know of minivend reacting slowly
> on the first load with INET and or FreeBSD, or for other reasons?
> 
>   Thanks,
> 
>     -mark
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