[thelist] Two or more sessions on same pc (coldfusion)

Bimal Shah bimal.shah at venus.co.uk
Tue Oct 2 09:58:57 CDT 2001


 >> When a user first comes to the site we set up their
>> session (login authentication etc), the cookie 'passes' each 
>> request with the cfid and cftoken but this seems to be the 
>> same on any number of sessions (browser window launches) on the 
>> same PC (thus killing a session in one window kills both of 
>> them). Looks like this is a limitation of using cookies.

>This isn't a limitation per se, it's just how cookies work. They are
>unique per machine, not browser instance. At least as far as I know.
>RC

Yes but two or more different browsers (IE,Netscape etc) on the
same PC will have different cookies - which makes cookies uniqueness 
per browser type and machine.

Bimal




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