Yes, the cookie would be associated with a particular machine. However, if you're behind a proxy, everyone behind the same proxy may appear to be the same machine. Something else to try. When I tried to determine unique visitors by IP address, everyone from AOL shared the same IP address (or small set of IP addresses) across a particular region.
I don't know what would happen if you were given a new IP address by DHCP. Probably still recognized as same machine by server, but would be interesting to try. Likewise, what happens if you adjust the other machine to have the same MAC? Would it be recognized as the same machine then? Or is there something besides the cookie (and something else - MAC? IP?) that uniquely identifies the visitor? --Don Ellis On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Don Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> See what happens across >> a restart of the server (probably around midnight, maybe daily, >> possibly weekly, or possibly not). > > I suspect it gets rebooted very infrequently, although the daemon may > get restarted more frequently. In either case, I don't know when that > happens. > >> My guess is your session cookies are good as long as you don't "quit >> your browser", which in this context is "stop using cookie.txt". > > It's been over 48 hours (almost 66 hours) and I can still use the old > cookie to get the data. Furthermore, a different user on the same > machine can use a copy of the cookie file to get the data. Using the > cookie from a different machine does not work, suggesting the server > associates the cookie with a specific IP address or host name. > > Regards, > - Robert > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
