Hi,

I'm looking for a way to pass crypted session user and password info 
from one page to another to prevent a user to inquire someone else's 
data by fooling with the URL.  I don't like using hidden inputs to 
pass such sensitive info, so I thought about using cookies.

However,  I can't have a cookie created at all when running CGI's 
from my local Apache server.

I did a little test to know if I was wrong.  On the Easy400 web 
site, there's a demo that illustrates the use of cookies (http://www-
922.ibm.com/cgidev2p/cookie2.pgm) this one works just fine, so this 
proves that this is not an issue with my browser settings.

Now, if I run the same demo from my local server which was 
implemented with the CGIDEV2 package -- and should be the same as 
the one available on Easy400 site --  no cookie is created at all.

Anybody has a clue?

Otherwise,  I'm considering using user space which I believe might 
be even more secure than cookies since only the random userspace 
name will travel thru the Web, which is additionnaly crypted, has no 
sense for a malicious user.  However,  I don't like the idea of 
accumulating thousands of userspaces thru the day until a purge task 
wipe them off at night.   

Cookies also have their downsides since many users disable them from 
their browsers.  

Any other proposals?

TIA 





 
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