Interesting idea!
Isaac Reuben wrote:
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> Would it make sense to have three levels of "logged-in-ness", like:
>
> 1. unknown user (first visit or has cookies off)
> 2. known user, but not logged in or doesn't have account yet
> 3. logged in user (allow access to secret info)
>
> At level 2 we think we know who they are, but don't trust them yet. Levels
> 1 and 3 are what FreeTrade does now.
>
> The cool thing about this (that isn't possible with the current FreeTrade)
> is that we can have site preferences (like frames/noframes) and shopping
> carts that persist across visits to the site, even if the user hasn't logged
> in or created an account yet. This is like Amazon and most other big
> ecommerce sites.
>
> I could see doing this by changing the session managment slightly to give
> the user a *permanent* session_id cookie, that just gets time refreshed on
> the *server* side (so there will still be a X-minute timeout, in case
> someone logs in and walks away).
>
> Any problems with this?
>
> - Isaac =)
>
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