| Re: multiple visitors at the same time [message #183021 is a reply to message #183019] |
Thu, 03 October 2013 12:27   |
Scott Johnson
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On 10/2/2013 8:33 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
> On 10/1/13 12:09 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> On 10/1/2013 8:05 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
>>> On 9/30/13 11:37 PM, Michael Vilain wrote:
>>>> Most session IDs without a login aren't sufficiently unique. You'll
>>>> need to have additional criteria to ensure that to machines with the
>>>> same browser and hardware connecting to your server from the same IP
>>>> address are able to be differentiated between the two. That's up to
>>>> you. You sound like you need to do a lot of reading up on this before
>>>> you come up with a viable solution. Publically available stuff without
>>>> first authenticating the user will only get you so far.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Session IDs with or without login MUST be unique, or your sessions are
>>> broken (session logic MUST give a new id number to anything starting a
>>> session, or you don't have real sessions). Multiple connections from the
>>> same IP will be given different sessions.
>>>
>>> Using a session ID without a login will mean that any work the user does
>>> will be forgotten when the session expires.
>>>
>>> What adding a login does is to allow you to put into the session a user
>>> id from the login, so that the data from the user can persist from one
>>> session to another.
>>>
>>
>> Just adding an id from the login to the session won't do a thing. When
>> the session expires, the data will be lost.
>>
>> If you want the data to continue across sessions, you need to store it
>> yourself, i.e. in a database.
>>
>>
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> Yes, I guess I assumed that someone would be smart enough to realize
> that to store data for longer than a session would realize that they
> needed to put the actual data somewhere besides the session itself.
>
If you are referring to Richard (Mr Oldies), we are still trying to get
help him remember the difference between '=' and '=='.
But I am still optimistic with hope.
Scotty
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