Well, that makes a lot of sense...thanks, Charlie! (I'm just glad Wil didn't see this. I'd never hear the end of it...)
Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:charlie.grie...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:23 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: Desparate!!!! Need someone to look at my code and figure out the > problem! > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Rick Faircloth > <r...@whitestonemedia.com>wrote: > > > Well, after 10 years with CF, I learn something I should > > have learned with CF 4.5. > > > > I thought cookies were on the hard drive and session variables > > were in memory only. I figured that's why there were separate > > settings for client management and session management all this time. > > > > they are. you need something on the server and something on the client in > order to maintain state across http requests. if it was just on the server, > how would the server identify the browser? if it was just in the browser, > how would the server know what to do with those values? it needs to be on > both. session is in memory on the server (versus in the database or > registry for client vars). on the client, it can either be in a cookie or > passed in the URL or form vars... but it needs to exist on the client for > each request. > > -- > I have failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my life. I love my > wife. And I wish you my kind of success. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:317581 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
