Google Summer of Code: web.py - Session management

project blog at planet-soc.com

Post GSoC work

• WSGI
• online migration between handlers?

End of GSoC

• FileHandler
• CookieHandler - see project blog first and second post

OLD Schedule - DONE

• May 28 - June 9 (1st & 2nd week): getting familiar with SVN/Bazaar, internals of web.py, flup and jonpy's sessions; creating a DDL for storing sessions
• June 10 - June 17 (3rd): creating DBHandler class
• June 18 - July 8 (4th - 6th): creating Session class's identify/verify methods
• July 9 - mid-term evulation deadline
• July 10 - August 19 (7th - ...): finishing the Session class
• August 20 - final evaluation deadline

Tasks

Administrative

• Bazaar/SVN
• blog

DBHandler

• create table DDL
• write store(), retrieve(), remove()
• test (& some docs)

Session

• write default session id generator(s)
• write & test session cookie creation, identification, verification
• write & test session id regeneration (mainly cookies & session identification)
• write start()
• write save()
• write destroy(), cleanup()
• test & docs