[sword-devel] Web Interface - Customization

[Don A. Elbourne Jr.]

If someone is able to run a mirror of the Sword web interface on their
server I would think they would also be able to have write permissions to
save preferences as well, wouldn't they?.


by grace alone,

Don A. Elbourne Jr.
http://elbourne.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Little" <chrislit@crosswire.org>
To: <sword-devel@crosswire.org>
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface - Customization


> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote:
>
> > I'm guessing that the ability to save preferences across sessions will
> > require a user/login type of system where the preferences will be able
> > to be saved in a database. Is this doable?
>
> Logins and server-side storage of setting adds a lot of complexity to what
> is required of service providers.  You may get people who come by once,
> make some settings, and never or seldom return.  But their data may remain
> on the server forever.
>
> What diatheke currently does (and what would be my recommendation) is just
> set cookies on the client.  Nothing is required of the server maintainer.
> If people disable cookies, the have to live without these features.  The
> only real drawback is that it doesn't work if you switch computers or do
> most of your work from different (e.g. public) computers.
>
> A third possiblity, if we want to deal with it, might be to set up a
> single central preferences database, hosted by CrossWire.  This relieves
> 3rd party server admins of the need to set up the database and provides
> the added bonus that, regardless of which server or which client you use,
> your server will always request and receive the same settings from
> CrossWire's server.  We can set it up as a web service that the 3rd party
> servers could query.
>
> --Chris
>
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