Arnold talks about how to persist user authentication without using sessions. The solution is intersesting in that it covers the problem of trying to use sessions over multiple servers.

I found this to be a little eye opener because one of the requests for features for FireOrb is that each user should have their own salt so that authentication in Ajax is simpler. vbBulliten does something similar to this and it is very effective.

Happy Publishing!

Pia Weathers - database systems engineer