[Catalyst] RFC on how to structure controllers

[John Napiorkowski]

I'd add one caveat to this, that you should also try
to make the URI's meaningful and with the intention of
being long lived.  So I'd avoid having a URL that
contains a session string in it, since that URL is not
really something that can be bookmarked.

Personally the only thing I use sessions and cookies
for is as part of the authentication process.  I wish
I could use http authentication but unfortunately it's
still too primative (Basic is too easy to break with
https and Digest doesn't seem to have wide support)
and for some reason my clients all want fancy login
screens.

Off topic, but I think it would be great if there was
some sort of plugin to direct the view to some sort of
error page based on the status code you set?  Apache
does this and it would be great if catalyst did it as
well.  

--john

--- "A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis at gmx.de> wrote:

> * Gert Burger <gburger at mweb.co.za> [2006-06-13
> 12:35]:
> > I would like some ideas on how todo the following
> in cat.
> 
> In general, the web way is to make as much state as
> possible
> explicit in the URI. Avoid the use of sessions and
> cookies
> wherever possible, try your darndest to use
> information from the
> URI instead. (Also make sure to return appropriate
> HTTP status
> codes when handling arbitrary URIs, instead of just
> saying 200 OK
> to everything.)
> 
> Whether you put the information in the URI into the
> query string
> or into the path is not that important in terms of
> webarch; the
> main advantage of using the path part is simply that
> it looks
> prettier.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
> 
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