An alternative is use GUID (or some form of an identifying character stream)
in the QueryString or Form to determine the logged in user. Remove the
dependency on Session based security.
I know, this is something more difficult to implement after a system is
designed, but it is an alternative that can solve your problem.
David L. Penton
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Soul." - J.S. Bach
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Robert Long
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 10:15 AM
It not that CF wasn't designed to do it, as usual, it is a limiting
factors of the browsers.
If only the browsers were able to handle the full powers of ColdFusion. :)
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 10:05 PM
Yeah, it doesn't make much sense for someone to login as 2 different people
at the same time on the same browser and same computer. However, it is a
customer request that they think is important. Thanks for everyones input
on this. It sounds like we are trying to do something that CF session
management was not designed to do. They will have to use 2 different
computers or 2 different browsers (IE & Netscape).
Thanks,
Scott
"Matthew Todd"
<mtbksp@hotmai To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Session variables apply to all of the instances of the browser windows that
you have open. If you have 1 ie window open or 10 ie windows open they all
get the same information.
I am curious as to why you would have two people logged on at the same time
from the same machine. If you provide the scenario that would require this
we may be able to help you come up with a different solution.
Good luck.
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 17:36:11 -0600
>
>I should have been more clear in my explanation. If you use 1 IE & 1
>Netscape browser they do not share sessions. Everything works fine. The
>problem is when you use 2 IE or 2 Netscape browsers.
>
>Additional info:
>The user info is stored in session variables not application variables.
>We are locking all application & session variables.
>
>
> "Jacob
> Cameron" To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> <jcameron@mult cc:
> imark.com> Subject: RE: Session
>
> Possible reasons:
> 1. If you open NS and login you get that session. If you
open
>IE and
>login you get another session, they don't share cookies. Possibly you
mean
>separate windows and not browsers?
> 2. You are storing the login in an application variable and
>not
>a session
>variable, therefore when you login as Bob, everyone else in the world sees
>Bob's info.
> 3. Somehow you got two different browsers to share cookies
>(cool trick).
> 4. Your not locking when setting your session which can cause
>some strange
>problems.
>
> Send us what 'Browsers' your talking about and OS if one of
>these are not
>the answer.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
>Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 4:32 PM
>
>I am having an issue with keeping state between 2 browsers on the same
>machine.
>
>Here is an example of the problem:
>A person logs into the application in a browser as Bob.
>He then opens another browser on the same machine and logs in as Jane.
>Now both browsers are logged in as Jane in the application. (PROBLEM!)
>
>We are keeping state by using session variables. I thought that session
>variables were specific to a paticular browser and not to a paticular
>machine. I guess this is not the case. Has anyone run across this
>problem? Any solutions/suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>Scott
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