On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Andre Cruz wrote:
> Hi PLUGgers,
>
> I hope you can help me with information regarding what I plan to do. I
> want to implement password-based web access, although not the usual HTTP
> authentication style but one similar to what mail.yahoo.com and
> www.hotmail.com do. Does the server have to generate things like session
> IDs and keep track of them? Is there an available open source solution
> that does something like this?
>
Frankly, I don't see any way to do it without using cookies. HTTP is
stateless, so we need at least a few cookies that will (and *should*)
expire when the session is over. The available open source solution I've
heard of was IMP/Horde, but that uses PHP3, I think.
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