Hi Bill, If I'm not mistaken, from what I understand about your particular coding technique, your "cookie" is about "session information", not real "session-cookies" - there is a distinction.
Cookies that you assign with a long "expire" value are by definition regular cookies, regardless if they are about "sessions". These kind of cookies are typical for auto-logons when revisiting a website, or for moving special data across more than one website. And yes, it is important to maintain some management of them, as required by your application. On the other hand, the Witango_UserReference is a "session-cookie" and (by difinition) has no properties other than a value, and a single browser instance cannot contain more than one of these of the same name. "Session-cookies" are also automatically purged when the browser instance closes. So if you're using regular cookies to maintain User IDs, it's a different story. Granted, I've made some assumptions about how you are using your cookies, but I'm sure we are on slightly different pages here. Correct me if I'm wrong. Cheers....... -----Original Message----- From: Bill Conlon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Witango-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 14:02:47 -0800 Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Session issues > I have automatic re-login via some session cookies in case the user > variables have timed out. I keep a user log (userid, IP, > userreference, > logintime, logouttime, loginmethod=prompt or cookie). I query this > log, > GROUPed BY userreference, to give me usage data that includes total > elapsed time as well as actual usage. > > This is a cose where purging the UserReference session cookie could be > useful -- so two userids don't get combined. Though I could use a key > consisting of userid+userrefernce to solve this. > > >I can't think of a single issue where it would be necessary to > >deliberately purge the > >Witango_UserReference session-cookie. > > > Bill Conlon > > To the Point > 345 California Avenue Suite 2 > Palo Alto, CA 94306 > > office: 650.327.2175 > fax: 650.329.8335 > mobile: 650.906.9929 > e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: http://www.tothept.com > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > _ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf
