"Chris Shiflett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- Rob Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm not sure if this fits your definition of "new browser > > > instance", but there is no way for a remote Web server to > > > distinguish between two instances of the same browser running > > > on the client machine. > > > > That can't be true. > > It can, and it is. > > The only way a Web server could distinguish between them is if the browsers
So there is a way, and it's not true. Test it yourself. Login to a PHP app using a standard browser and session cookies and see for yourself. I understand the philosophy of the web server only seeing what the client sends it, but it looks like my client (IE6, right here) does send different requests per instance. It's not just 'in theory.' > sent something unique per instance within the HTTP request. So, you could write > a browser that does this in theory, but that doesn't really do you much good > unless you can convince your users to use it. > > It would be very unusual behavior, so I doubt anyone would want this. > > Chris > > ===== > My Blog > http://shiflett.org/ > HTTP Developer's Handbook > http://httphandbook.org/ > RAMP Training Courses > http://www.nyphp.org/ramp -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
