It should also be added that tracking the session ID in the URL makes
bookmarking impossible.
Also, what happens if someone wants to share a page they're looking at with
a friend. To pass that URL to the friend, it includes the session ID, so
suddenly the friend has everything in a shopping cart the friend already put
in there, a bigger privacy issue to me than cookies present.
Mark W
-----Original Message-----
From: James Treworgy [mailto:jamie@stripped]
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:44 AM
To: mark@stripped; Mark Lo
Cc: php3; mysql@stripped
Subject: Re: Althernatives other than cookie!!!
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So you can do it without cookies, but there are two problems.
1) It's a huge pain to make sure every link has carriest the session ID
2) If someone does a "Back" on their web browser, and backs over the login
form (e.g. to get back to the home page) then the session is gone. This is
unsolveable.
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Jamie
At 11:48 PM 2/24/00 +1030, Mark Ferraretto wrote:
> > Hi ,
> >
> > Is there a way to get the inquiry basket or shopping cart function
> > properly other than using cookies????
>
>You could get the user to log in and then update a table or file on your
>server as they go...
>
>I find cookies easier personally, especially has they have a built-in
>expiry mechanism. Good for timing out logins.
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