Recently the need for a custom photo gallery surfaced in one of my GWT pet projects. While such an endeavour seems endless from an artistic point of view, the mechanics behind it - at least for my humble needs - were rather simple: the gallery widget will be given a list of image IDs for … Continue reading When IE does not load images
Month: Jul 2010
Stateless user sessions with encrypted session IDs
When trying to design for stateless services one finds it easy to reduce the information stored in an http session but for one piece: whether the client has authenticated against the server or not. Usually you would implement a proccess for authenticating like this: Client submits credentials (login / password) to the server Server checks … Continue reading Stateless user sessions with encrypted session IDs