[thelist] Free Tip - just discovered

Peter Brunone (EasyListBox.com) peter at easylistbox.com
Tue Aug 24 14:37:30 CDT 2004


>I can't see how you'd change this behaviour from the browser; presumably
>you'd have to change how the browser handled other windows having access to
>nonpersistent cookies...?

   It would be pretty simple; you'd just have to say "when I open a new window, don't take any of my state information (cookies, headers, etc) with me".  Like I said, I thought this was a setting in one of the IE menus, but it looks like I was wrong.

Peter

Original Message:
>From: "Jason Handby" <jasonh at corestar.co.uk>

>>    Well, dangit, I thought you could do this!  I could've 
>> sworn I saw that as an option; maybe it's not accessible from 
>> the menus in IE6?
>> 
>>    Anyway, the general rule is that if you open a window 
>> *from* a currently logged in window, the session will be 
>> passed.  I was certain there was a way to change this via 
>> Tools-->Internet Options-->Advanced (no idea about non-IE 
>> browsers, but I can check them later).  If I find anything 
>> more on this, I'll pass it along.
>
>The ASP sessionid is stored in a nonpersistent cookie in the user's browser.
>Iframes, popups, etc. are treated as part of the same session because they
>share the same non-persistent cookies as the original window, and so they
>send the same sessionid to the server.
>
>I can't see how you'd change this behaviour from the browser; presumably
>you'd have to change how the browser handled other windows having access to
>nonpersistent cookies...?
>
>Jason




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