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

[cfm@maine.com]

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I'm not thinking that's the right way to fix what sounds like
a network issue but I'll leave that aside....

Sometimes we will set a cookie and then match up the cookie 
with session when and if user gets into minivend.  There is
much less overhead than building a session.




On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 11:58:29AM -0500, Mark Stosberg wrote:
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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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