[wp-hackers] sessions and wordpress

Haluk Karamete halukkaramete at gmail.com
Fri Nov 15 16:22:59 UTC 2013


Sure that's a big one Mike.
I'd like to hear more problems with sessions though. I'm just building a
case study on why sessions should be avoided as far as WordPress goes.
On Nov 15, 2013 7:27 AM, "Mika A Epstein" <ipstenu at ipstenu.org> wrote:

> PHP Sessions?
>
> You massively screw up anyone with Varnish Caching for one (PHP Sessions
> effectively tells Varnish "No, bro, you don't need to cache, so lemme load
> up like a logged in user!")
>
> Haluk Karamete wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Are the important consequences of using Sessions in WordPress?
>> If there are, could someone elaborate the most vital things to in a few
>> sentences..
>>
>> At the top of my head, I am thinking there might be some issues with
>> Sessions as far as scalability, code performance, multisite, or multiple
>> servers configurations... Not sure, if these concerns are valid though...
>>
>> And in general, is avoiding the sessions considered "best-practice" in the
>> WordPress world?
>>
>> as always, this question pertains to sites that gets heavy traffic.
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