Thanks. I did not know that you could verify that someone has cookies turned on. Can you point me to where i can find out how to do this? Is there a variable that you can check?
JM ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "mod_perl List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 4:24 PM Subject: Re: Cookie authentication > On 15 Nov 2001, at 12:16, Andrew Ho wrote: > > > CD>It seems you can't do anything online without having cookies turned on > > CD>(yahoo, bankone, huntington, ebay, etrade ) and I think internet users > > CD>have accepted this. > > > Methinks there is a need to write a transparent "store cookies on URL" > > module. I seem to recall at least one major Apache module having an option > > to use URL-based authentication instead of cookie-based... but I can't > > seem to find that from a cursory perusal of CPAN. > > http://perl.apache.org/guide/modules.html#Apache_Session_Maintain_sessi > > I used Apache::Session and HTML::Template to embed the > session_id in the url in a recent job site.I planned this before I built > the site (all templates built according to the plan :). No problems > there. There were no static pages. > > I find cookies are used when one has a site static/dynamic pages. > How do you keep a user if they click to a static page? I don't > know. > > But one should always check if a user has cookies turned on. I > recall an internal site I did for FedEx a few years back and I used > cookies for it as it was before my mod_perl use. Well it turned out > that the vice-president had cookies turned off. He was not a > customer we wanted to ignore:) > > Peter > "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the > support of Paul." -- George Bernard Shaw
