[thelist] Cold Fusion Forms and Cookies Help

Mike Cohen - Tabletools.com mike at tabletools.com
Mon Apr 16 19:02:56 CDT 2001


The question really is, why if the user_id parameter is appended to the
action url of a form, would the other values of the form not get passed on
to the next template if the browser's cookies are set to off.

Michel Cohen
http://www.tabletools.com
888-211-6603
----- Original Message -----
From: Joshua Olson <joshua at alphashop.net>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 7:42 PM
Subject: RE: [thelist] Cold Fusion Forms and Cookies Help


> I'm pretty sure that ColdFusion required cfid and cftoken to maintain its
> sessions.
> Undoubtedly, even though you are using user_id to maintain user
information
> in the database or some sort of application scope structure, ColdFusion is
> still setting cookies that contain cfid and cftoken.  So, you'll need to
> pass those two variables in the URL to use the built in sessions if
cookies
> are disabled.
>
> -joshua
>
> Michel, you wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> > Subject: [thelist] Cold Fusion Forms and Cookies Help
> >
> >
> > We have integrated a third party shopping cart (AbleCommerce)
> > into our site,
> > the site and cart are in Cold Fusion. User sessions are maintained by a
> > user_id variable (not a CFTOKEN or CFID) that is appended to every URL
and
> > also written to a cookie. The user_id is also apended to form
> > action urls as
> > well, example:   form action = search.cfm?user_id=174927. When
> > testing form
> > submissions with cookies on there is no problem, with cookies off, none
of
> > the form values get passed. Anyone have any idea why? Thanks.
>
>
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