On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:01:49AM -0600, Robert Citek 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.

An expiration time can be set on a cookie.  If you looks at your
cookies in Firefox, it will show when it expires.  Some have a
specific expiration time and some are set to expire when the session
ends, i.e., you exit the browser.  Presumably the latter would be
enforced by the browser which would explain why you are able to
circumvent that in wget and why you are able to recover session after
Firefox crashes.

-- 
David Dooling
http://www.politigenomics.com/

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