[wp-hackers] sessions and wordpress

[Mika A Epstein]

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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