> I realize that, that's why I said "when the user logs out (destroys
session
> vars like supposed to)", maybe I should have said "and the application
> destroys session vars like supposed to" ...

I think that is what I am saying.  The default behaviour of Cold Fusion
Sessions is that the Session will only be destroyed after the timeout
period has elapsed.  It wont be destroyed just because the user logs out
and/or shuts down all browsers.

If they use a log out facility, you can destroy any Session variables you
may have created during that time, but the "Session" itself is still
active.

When you use cookies that expire immediately, the original Session still
exists until the timeout period has elapsed, BUT the user gets a new
CFID/CFTOKEN which creates a new "session" in the application.

In response to your most recent post about the CFID in the URL.....

The CFID and CFTOKEN exist on a per-browser/per-connection basis.  So two
browsers of the same type will get the same CFID/CFTOKEN.  So this wont be
able to distinguish between to separate instances of data.  Using
CFID/CFTOKEN in the URL is a technique used to avoid using cookies to
serve these up with each request.

If we are talking about using the facilities the language provides to
implement a solution, I would say that CF is deficient in it's ability to
support multiple session instances from the same browser type on a singnle
machine and that you have to come up with other mechanisms (as has already
been mentioned a UUID passed over to identify each instance) to implement
this.


Gary Menzel
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