> -----Original Message----- > From: Karen > Sent: Thursday, 7 February 2008 3:12 p.m. > To: CGI Application > Subject: Re: [cgiapp] Persistence > > On 2/6/08, Dan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Another problem is bookmarks. A user may bookmark a page, but when they > > come back a couple of days later, the session has expired. They might > also > > email a link to others, and that link may not work for the same reason. > > If you want a poster child for this particular evilness, and how it > can be compounded: Joann.com (fabric/craft chain). You get bloggers > who post links (craftblogging is a big thing), with their session id, > and when you read and click, you get taken to a page that informs you > that the session has expired... and it dumps you to the joann.com home > page. If you're savvy editing the url, you can go back and edit it to > get there, but otherwise there is absolutely no way to tell where the > blogger meant you to go. > I've done some work with a Perl-based ecommerce package called ePages that used to put the sessionid in the URL. They don't do that in the version I worked with, but there are plenty of sites around that still use the old URL session approach...
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