Status of Pier

Hello all, I have been working with Pier a bit lately, and I noticed a couple of things I was curious about. First, in my image, if you go to a page and then go to lunch, come back and hour later and click a link you get dropped back to the front page because your session has expired. But I thought Pier used the URL to be able bookmark, surf the side via URL etc. In fact, I thought it even worked this way before I put the security package in. Has this been fixed? It seems like if you click on a link that has a URL, but an old session Pier could just make a new session and apply that to the page the user is trying to go to. If the user is not allowed to see that resource with the blank session then kick them back to the front like now, but if the page is not restricted they should see it. Second, is there any plan to expand on the RESTfulness of Pier? I mean, I'm not a die-hard REST person or anything, but there are times it would be nice to use URL's. I think the above suggested handling would probably be enough. One thing that makes me want this is the difficulty of pointing to another page in your Pier site from a custom component. I know you have the #goto: message on anchor, but (1) I need it anywhere a URL could be used, since I am using "html tag:" to do some tags not in seaside (an HTML image map to be specific). And (2) the #goto: message expects a structure that can be tough to get a hold of sometimes. The easiest thing for me would be if I could simply point my image map at the URL as a string, since that part is public and I don't care if the user is logged in or not. And lastly, I have had some users complain about the ugly URL's. I know you can say that they shouldn't look at the URL, etc. etc., but if we can make this better why not? What I was thinking was, how hard would it be to change Pier so that the URL part stays, but at least the session (and maybe the command and view fields as well) could optionally be cookies. And this could even be something configured in the /seaside/config/pier page. Thanks in advance. You may have ways to do all these things by now, but I thought I would check. Jason _________________________________________________________________ Valentine’s Day -- Shop for gifts that spell L-O-V-E at MSN Shopping http://shopping.msn.com/content/shp/?ctId=8323,ptnrid=37,ptnrdata=24095&…