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"Your client variables are set to expire after 30 days"

Easily editable. 90 days is the default is it not? Nothing mentioned about a non expiring auto login in original post, just your angle on it (often there is a 90 day limit on those remember me things), and if that was required then clearly client variables would not be the way to go.

I even asked whether this was not correct earlier, I'm not making out to know that it is the right thing to do. But it does work and I have used it in exactly the circumstance that the original posted question was referring to.

Was a simple suggestion so please chill the **** out.

DOM

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OK please explain it to me then DOM.

Your client variables are set to expire after 30 days.
I visit your site after 31 days.
How am I automatically logged in ?

Russ
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"But that's not really what were talking about.
The whole point in saving your login details in a cookie is so that you can
be automatically logged into a website every time you revisit, even if it is
6 months later."

Yes, which you can do by setting client variables. Same thing, less code.
Though I guess you'd only do it if you were storing client data in the first
place.

Dominic

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CF automatically creates the cookies for session and client variables to manage your session.
But that's not really what were talking about.
The whole point in saving your login details in a cookie is so that you can be automatically logged into a website every time you revisit, even if it is
6 months later.


Russ

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It is the same; you just dont have to handle the cookies, CF does it for you so cleaner code IMO. Is this not right?

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How would that negate the need for cookies then Dom?
You still need a cookie to identify your session so that the correct client variables are loaded. So it's the same as using session variables.
And if the client variables expire, where will the login details come
from?
Russ


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It can also be done using client variables if you have them enabled in the application. This handles all the cookies for you:

IF remember me selected...

 client.username = form.username
 client.password = form.password

Just remember to clear them when they logout (remember me status should be cleared when someone logs out)

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Usually yes, you hash the username/password, store in cookie.

So in the database, your usernames/passwords would also be hashed.

So under normal login procedure, you HASH the form.username and form.password and compare to database. If the user has a cookie.username and cookie.password, you check these first (without hashing them), if they fail, kick to login page.

Russ

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On loggong in some sites have a small checkbox that says remember me on this computer.

How is this done?
Is the persons password saved with Hash() in a cookie?

Thanks
Allan
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