Re: [Active4d-dev] Determining if session has expired?

[Aristedes Maniatis]

You need some way to identify users, particularly if you are going to 
maintain their state information in the database. Cookies are one of 
the best options, because they are easy, work well and fairly 
universal. But what happens when two users use the same computer (eg at 
an internet cafe)?

Without cookies and without a login, I can't see how you can maintain 
state outside of the current session. By only keeping the session id in 
the URL, you can't reliably identify a user returning to the site.

Ari Maniatis
On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 04:28  AM, Brad Perkins wrote:
I suppose I could update a "last_interaction_timestamp" cookie and 
examine this when a new session is created, but I don't want to have 
to rely on cookies being on.
Also in the system in question users will be anonymous (no login 
required) so I can't think of a reliable way to store this information 
in the database.


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