rb:marksession

Mark all anchor and src tags with session ID

Body

The rb:marksession body is empty.

Remarks

The WhitebeamPresentation Engine provides all the necessary logic to track user sessions and to allow Pattern Pages to store information against those session. For this facility to work the Presentation Engine must plant a session identification value on the clients machine in such a way that the browser will return that ID to the engine with the next request. The Presentation Engine always attempt to plant a browser cookie containing the value back with the client. This works fine for all clients that have cookies enabled (the majority). and if a site is happy with this then nothing else is required.

If the client disables cookies for some reason a different strategy is required. Generally the process involves adding the ID to any site referencing URLs and to add 'hidden' form values to forms. The engine can do all the real work for this simply by the web author adding the marksession attribute to all elements that refer back to the same site.

This can however be tedious - the rb:marksession tag can be placed once anywhere in a Pattern Page - or a page included - and it will mark all anchor, image and form tags that are appropriate with the session ID.