Hi Robert,

> I am glad I found it too, and I appreciate the help, it was the fact  
> that others were not seeing the same issue that made me dig deeper.
> 
> I agree, that the cookie is not set in a redirect, even if you include 
> the <@userreferencecookie> tag. So I removed the  
> <@userreferenceargument> in the redirects to get around this issue.

You can learn a lot from HTTP, eh :-)

 
> Although I do see that the <@userreferencecookie> is working as  
> advertised, and so therefore this is not a bug, I did add a feature  
> request that the <@userreferencecookie> will in the future write the  
> cookie if the cookie does not exist, even if the search arg is present.
>  
> I think if the cookie is not present, and there is a search arg user  
> ref, then the cookie should be written with the valud of the search  
> arg.

I'm not 100% intimate with the logic currently in the system, but what 
you are suggesting is how Session-hijacking (or Session tail-gating) is 
achieved.

This is exactly what shouldn't happen.



> 
> Is there a reason that I am not thinking of where the cookie should not
>  
> be written if the cookie is not present? I cannot think of one.

See above. Cheers....

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