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Haskell Cookbook

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Haskell Cookbook

Overview of this book

Haskell is a purely functional language that has the great ability to develop large and difficult, but easily maintainable software. Haskell Cookbook provides recipes that start by illustrating the principles of functional programming in Haskell, and then gradually build up your expertise in creating industrial-strength programs to accomplish any goal. The book covers topics such as Functors, Applicatives, Monads, and Transformers. You will learn various ways to handle state in your application and explore advanced topics such as Generalized Algebraic Data Types, higher kind types, existential types, and type families. The book will discuss the association of lenses with type classes such as Functor, Foldable, and Traversable to help you manage deep data structures. With the help of the wide selection of examples in this book, you will be able to upgrade your Haskell programming skills and develop scalable software idiomatically.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Session handling in Snap

In this recipe, we will work with session manager data type, SessionManager in Snap. The HTTP is a connection-less protocol, and the concept of a session has to be built on top of the interaction between client and server. The session is usually represented by some key-value pair that can be persisted across the interactions between a client and the server. In HTTP, this can be done in multiple ways--one of the most popular ways of handling a session is to set the session cookies. The session cookies are retained by the browser for a particular interaction duration.

In this recipe, we will set session cookies through cookie based the session manager in Snap.

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