Ian,
My desk really isn't THAT far away is it? Maybe I forgot to mention my
other title is 'resident firewall guru'. ;) Now, enough of this silly
stuff... I'm all about helping other people out, so here's your answer:
The problem is related to the fact that the application is probably relying
on the client IP rather than a unique identifier. All clients coming from
firewalls or proxies usually appear to have a single IP address to the
outside world and their true address is masked by NAT. Thus multiple users
from behind a firewall appear as one session to the application, and session
data becomes shared for all those clients.
To workaround this problem, attach a unique identifier to the client through
a cookie or URL token. Methods similar to this will insure firewall and
proxy clients maintain seperate sessions.
Ryan
Ryan Hill, MCSE
Director, Systems Integration
Market Matrix, Inc.
http://www.marketmatrix.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lurie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 3:21 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Firewall and shopping carts
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm apparently IP-impaired, and wanted to bounce this off some people.
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