That'll get me somewhere. Thanks.

"Michael Vincent van Rantwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht 
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> RML wrote:
>> Well, the problem is that I've divided my users into different groups. 
>> And those groups have various levels of authorities. The problem that 
>> occurs is that, not knowing which browser-tab is using my application,  I 
>> can't be sure what permissions to give to the application-user should 
>> users use the same browser (on different tabs).
>
> You mean like two different users in one and the same browser?
>
> Well, first of all, there are plenty web applications, like for example 
> web mail and Internet banking, that enable you two open two, or more, tabs 
> or windows. However, you can either limit the number of connections or 
> check for a user/session ID by adding/using a user/session specific global 
> var or a property on one of the available objects, like for example the 
> window or document.
>
>> RML
>>
>> "Benjamin D. Smedberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht 
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>>> Planet Internet Nieuws wrote:
>>>> I'm currently writing a .NET application and I run into a problem using 
>>>> multi-tab browsers (like FireFox). I'm using the unique ASP.NET 
>>>> session-id to keep track of security issues with a logged-in user. The 
>>>> session id is one-on-one with his/her security account. However, when 
>>>> using 2 tabs in FireFox, one session-id is used by both tabs. It 
>>>> undermines my procedures. How can I deal with this problem? How do I 
>>>> make each tab-session unique?
>>> It's the same browser, so it uses the same cookies (which presumably 
>>> matches up to the ASP.NET session ID). Why do you care which tab the 
>>> user is in? Perhaps they wanted to see your website in two tabs at the 
>>> same time...
>>>
>>> --BDS
>> 

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