auto log out

Originally posted by piderman
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There is a good alternative, and that is to propagate the session ID in the URL of the page. Then you have no cookies, but still a session.
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Not sure if this is the same thing, but check out
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q834489
Its a bit on IE ceasing to support "password in URL" due to some hacks that can be done with it.
It probably isn't exactly what you meant, but I can't tell as I'm way out of my IT depth and should probably just shut up... 😀

Originally posted by piderman
Indeed. But it is not, as you think, 99.99%. For if that would be the case, all the people who choose not to have cookies wouldn't be able to order from a web store. There is a good alternative, and that is to propagate the session ID in the URL of the page. Then you have no cookies, but still a session.

Ok, I may have been exaggerating when i said 99.99% of the time, but I very rarely see session ids on URLs these days.

-Russ