On 2/4/14, 6:03 PM, Peter Shute wrote: > I agree that convenience is often at the expense of security, but I feel that > this is just a side efect of something they've done with multitasking. The > cookies are supposed to expire if I close the browser, but I haven't. I've > only swapped to another program for a while. Safari is a native app, not a > random program off the internet. > > Sometimes when I come back, the session remains logged in. It might be if I > come back quickly. But generally I find it's logged out, so I assume iOS has > temporarily closed the browser, causing the cookie to expire. > > This happened in iOS6, but nowhere near as much. In iOS7, it seems to happens > almost without fail. It's fair enough to expire the cookie if the browser was > closed, but they iOS tries to give the impression it wasn't closed by keeping > all the tabs open with the content still visible. > > As Mark said, this is an Apple problem, not a mailman problem. but if it has > become a permanent feature of iOS, and if lots of mailman administrators use > iOS, does it become a mailman problem? > > Peter Shute > My guess is it depend on if iOS has asked the browser to actually close to reclaim memory, or just put it aside, while it has been in the background.
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