[Phplib-users] Sessions where are we going??

[Donncha O C. <don...@tr...>]

On Tuesday 02 July 2002 14:52, Giancarlo wrote:
>  Donncha O Caoimh <don...@tr...> a =E9crit le  2/7/=
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9:59:
> >I explained my idea to John
> >here at work and he said

> this supposes that any browser window shares the same cookie.
> I am using Netscape, and it does, but I heard IE might do not.

IE is even more "pervasive" than Netscape. From experience, IE does share=
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cookies. If you have Active Desktop running you have to actually=20
logout/reboot to clear out session cookies, so I don't think you need to=20
worry about different windows not recognising cookies or having old cooki=
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values.

>
> >I just did a little experiment.
> >I reloaded a page that uses
>
> people dream predictably stable solution that sulevate them from the du=
ty
> of having to shed any light. That's why they love PHP4 sessions and pre=
fer
> to ignore anything seriously wrong with it.

Right, you want to fix the problems, so do I, and others do too, but if n=
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else objects, I think the "secret key" cookie solution might be a way to =
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the propogation problem. I suppose it's best to leave it a few days and g=
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comments from others of course. I'll have a bash at it on our LAN here an=
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mail some code to the list when I have it running.

Donncha.