Can CF session management be enabled only in certain subfolders?

Question

If I'm building a high-traffic site, and I don't want to use session for the front pages. Is it possible to enable session only for pages in certain subfolders, while sharing the same Application scope?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I don't believe so. My understanding is that session settings are per-application. However, if you are simply using the application scope to store configuration variables (or similar) then you could create two application.cfm/application.cfc files that include a shared file with the config data.

Answer 2

It's possible, but be careful, as you could have things leak out that you don't want to. Take the following file structure:

wwwroot
-- Application.cfc
-- index.cfm
-- Subfolder
---- Application.cfc
---- index.cfm

Application.cfc:

<cfcomponent>
    <cfset this.name = "foobar" />
    <cfset this.applicationtimeout = CreateTimeSpan(1,0,0,0) />
    <cfset this.sessionmanagement = false />

    <cffunction name="onApplicationStart">
     <cfset Application.Started = Now() />
    </cffunction>

</cfcomponent>

index.cfm:

<cfdump var="#Application#">
<cfdump var="#Session#" />

Subfolder/Application.cfc

<cfcomponent extends="Application">
    <cfset this.sessionmanagement = true />

</cfcomponent>

Subfolder/index.cfm

<cfdump var="#Application#">
<cfdump var="#Session#">

A dump in the root index.cfm will show no values for cfid, sessionid, cftoken, etc. However, a dump in Subfolder/index.cfm will show all of the usual session information. Both index.cfm files will dump the same started value in the Application scope.

Dan