Official RIVA thread

[Dean Roddey]

Do I understand your suggestion to be that when the client logs in it receives a session token of some kind, and then later on, when logging in again after a dropped connection, the client can pass that token and "claim" the session again? That sounds like a good idea.

Yeh, something along those lines. It would stay open for a while on the back end. Not a long time, but long enough that short losses of connection would cause a reset. If you try the relogin and it fails (probably with a 'bad session id' if it's been too long), then you'd go back to scratch with a regular login (though those two things could be done in one call really, if you get back a 'bad session id' but the login info is good, you'll get back a new session id and that becomes the active one. Doesn't matter per se to you which happened. You would just flush any stacks since when you connect you'll just get a full redraw.