RE: FLASH: WAS: Back Button redirect? NOW: Non-flash answer...

[Chris Tifer]

If I'm not mistaken, SessionID is generated by the server. That's why

if you look, you will see that users are assigned ID's sequentially.  I

did not know you can stop the server from doing this.


Are you saying that if someone turns off their cookies, servers

can't track them?  I find that a little hard to fathom, because then

that end user would not be able to do much.  They would never

be able to use a shopping cart, etc..


Someone please show me how to disable this in my

broswer because I want to test it myself.  I've been

building sites DEPENDING on session cookies (session variables),

thinking no user could disable them.


Chris Tifer

ctifer1tampabay [dot] rr [dot] com

 (this is going way off topic, so mail me

off list if needed)


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Subject: Re: FLASH: WAS: Back Button redirect? NOW: Non-flash answer...



The way I understand it, the SessionID is stored as a cookie on the client

side to match up with the SessionID data on the server side.  The only way

you can get around this, that I know of, is to use something like

"CookieMuncher" that writes the session variables into the URL of each page,

on the fly, as in a "Get" action...takes up server resources and slows

things down, but it "knows" when cookies are turned off.


~~~~Cheri Harder~~~~~

charderawsolution [dot] com

Advantage Web Solution

www.awsolution.com

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Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 8:08 AM

Subject: RE: FLASH: WAS: Back Button redirect? NOW: Non-flash answer...



> What I call a Server Side Cookie, you refer to as a Session Variable.

>

> Can someone disable cookies (or variables) on the server end?  I've

> never heard of that.  Only client-side.

>

> Chris




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