Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Stop tracking sessions in URL (when cookies are off)

Hi devs, Right now we're trying to support clients (browsers namely) that have cookies turned off. I've recently updated code to try to support that but I've found that: 1) It's very hard and we still have lot of places in our code that doesn't work without cookies 2) It adds ;jsessionid in the URL and this is causing havoc in tons of unsuspecting place such as RSS feed generation (RSS readers get different URLs every time thus thinking it's a different article, exports, watchlist, tests, etc). 3) It's a security risk to expse the sessionid in the URL 4) It's bad for SEO since search bots may index several times the same resource with different sessionid (it's a new one every time) 5) There are lots of cases where we don't need to track sessions (like for RSS feed generation or HTML exports) I started fixing all failing places because of the ;jsessionid in the URL but more keep coming and it feels strange to have to remove it a bit everywhere when we're adding it in our URL factory. Thus I'd like to propose that we officially don't support tracking sessions in URLs (i.e. when browsers have cookies turned off). The idea is that I'd still call encodeURL in our XWikiURLFactory implementations (we need this if we want to support URL rewriting for short URLs for example) but XWikiURLFactory would strip any jsessionid from the URL. WDYT?