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Re: Session Id in URL and Cookies [message #15845 is a reply to message #15825]

Tue, 06 January 2004 15:02

Gribnif

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Ilia wrote on Mon, 05 January 2004 13:33

That's true, however the same is true for URL sessions to a smaller extent. If you leave the computer on a forum page and within a few minutes another user uses that terminal they'll be able to use the forum as the user who didn't logout.

Yes, I realize that. However, as I said, the difference is that in order to become the previous user when only URL-based IDs are used, I have to intentionally go back in the browser's history.

But when cookies are used, as soon as I hit the forum's homepage, I become the previous user.

That's an important distinction, IMHO.

mocara wrote on Mon, 05 January 2004 20:04

Surely the timeout can be kept as low as a person is reasonably likely to read the forum without clicking on a link? 2 minutes?

This doesn't work, because people often take more than 2 minutes to write a reply (like this one). I can recall using another board with this timeout set too low, and being frustrated when I hit the submit button, only to be told my session had timed out.

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		Session Id in URL and Cookies By: wfjmueller on Wed, 31 December 2003 13:20
		Re: Session Id in URL and Cookies By: Ilia on Wed, 31 December 2003 19:32
		Re: Session Id in URL and Cookies By: wfjmueller on Fri, 02 January 2004 12:49
		Re: Session Id in URL and Cookies By: wfjmueller on Fri, 02 January 2004 13:02
		Re: Session Id in URL and Cookies By: Ilia on Fri, 02 January 2004 15:57
		Re: Session Id in URL and Cookies By: Gribnif on Mon, 05 January 2004 15:50
		Re: Session Id in URL and Cookies By: Ilia on Mon, 05 January 2004 15:56
		Re: Session Id in URL and Cookies By: Gribnif on Mon, 05 January 2004 16:26
		Re: Session Id in URL and Cookies By: Ilia on Mon, 05 January 2004 18:33
		Re: Session Id in URL and Cookies By: mocara on Tue, 06 January 2004 01:04
		Re: Session Id in URL and Cookies By: Ilia on Tue, 06 January 2004 01:09
		Re: Session Id in URL and Cookies By: Gribnif on Tue, 06 January 2004 15:19
		Re: Session Id in URL and Cookies By: Ilia on Wed, 07 January 2004 03:11
		Re: Session Id in URL and Cookies By: Gribnif on Wed, 07 January 2004 15:58
		Re: Session Id in URL and Cookies By: Ilia on Thu, 08 January 2004 17:59
		Re: Session Id in URL and Cookies By: Gribnif on Thu, 08 January 2004 19:10
		Re: Session Id in URL and Cookies By: Ilia on Thu, 08 January 2004 19:14
		Re: Session Id in URL and Cookies By: Gribnif on Tue, 06 January 2004 15:02
		Re: Session Id in URL and Cookies By: mocara on Tue, 06 January 2004 16:23
		Re: Session Id in URL and Cookies By: spyder on Wed, 24 March 2004 15:36
		Re: Session Id in URL and Cookies By: Ilia on Thu, 25 March 2004 16:01
		Re: Session Id in URL and Cookies By: spyder on Fri, 26 March 2004 03:09
		Re: Session Id in URL and Cookies By: Ilia on Fri, 26 March 2004 19:39
		@ Ilia By: spyder on Sun, 28 March 2004 01:23
		Re: @ Ilia By: Ilia on Mon, 29 March 2004 00:27
		Re: @ Ilia By: Wild_Cat on Thu, 01 April 2004 22:38
		Re: @ Ilia By: Ilia on Thu, 01 April 2004 22:43

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