On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 12:47:48 +1100, Steve Onnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We are on our 6th, coming into 7th version of CF, and after all this time, 
> J2EE sessions are the fix to this problem?
> 
> Comeon...........
> 
> Saying this, to me, says that this has always been a problem and only now 
> with J2EE have we been able to solve it.

My suggestion to switch to J2EE sessions would establish whether it
might be due to old persistent CFID / CFTOKEN cookies and was intended
to be a debugging aid only.

Old CF sessions are managed by persistent cookies and use a simple
number for the CFTOKEN value, CFMX added the option to use UUIDs for
CFTOKEN which is a bit more secure but J2EE sessions are managed by
in-memory browser-based cookies and a secure unique ID generation.

If users have visited the site in the past, they will have persistent
cookies on disk. If they have old-style numeric CFTOKEN cookies, they
are more likely to clash with another session - in my opinion.

> I would be looking at how the sessions are set up firstly, is it stored in a 
> session var environment or is it pulled from a DB

That doesn't make sense to me - sessions are managed by cookies, or by
tokens in the URL. Client variables may use a database (as well as a
cookie!) but session variables do not use a database.

However, if someone is doing custom session management, they may well
have a coding error that crosses sessions depending on how they're
managing the information.

> Not everyone has this problem, so it must be a setup or environment issue.

Agreed.
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