> maintain state accross requests. This is done in 3 different ways.
> 1. Cookies
> 2. URL Mangling
> 3. HTTP Authentication
#4 Passing a SID/Session info in hidden fields, but it means
you must push every page move through a submit (which can be
done with Javascript, image buttons, etc), dep
> You're missing one method - using the user's IP address
> It's not a guaranteed fool-proof method, but if you don't
> want to use cookies or the URL, then this sorta works.
Unless there's a firewall using NAT or a proxy cache involved. I know
for a fact that our internal network only ever
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> Could you explain how this could be acc
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If it ain't foolproof then only a fool would use it ...
IP addresses are just about the worst way to identify anyone.
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You're missing one method - using the user's IP address
It's not a guaranteed fool-proof method, but if you don't want to use
cookies or the URL, then this sorta works.
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> Could you explain how this could be accomplished, because I'm not
> understanding how to do it.
>
> As I understand HTTP Authentication (correct me if I'm wrong), the
> user's computer still has to send a 'username/password' pair to perform
> the authentication. I can't see how this could be use
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> I am understanding the problem perfectly. HTTP i
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I am understanding the problem perfectly. HTTP is stateless. You want
to
maintain state accross requests. This is done in 3 different ways.
1. Cookies
2. URL Mangling
3. HTTP Authentication
You said
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I am understanding the problem perfectly. HTTP is stateless. You want to
maintain state accross requests. This is done in 3 different ways.
1. Cookies
2. URL Mangling
3. HTTP Authenti
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Matthew Walker wrote:
> The sites are not dynamic, but the shopping cart /is/. The problem is,
> if people don't have cookies on, when they return to the site to order
> more products, they loose the SID that has been appended to the links
> inside the cart, and thus loose the
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> Use standard HTTP authentication over SSL - that's the only other way.
>
> On Tue, 14 May 2002, Matthew Walker wrote:
>
> > We have a shopping cart product we're developing
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Use standard HTTP authentication over SSL - that's the only other way.
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Matthew Walker wrot
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On Tue, 14 May 2002, Matthew Walker wrote:
> Man
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Matthew Walker wrote:
> Many of the people who will be shopping on our sites have cookies
> disabled, which presents a problem when using sessions. Now, I am aware
> of the fact that we could append the SID constant to every URL, but this
> will not work for us. None of our si
Use standard HTTP authentication over SSL - that's the only other way.
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Matthew Walker wrote:
> We have a shopping cart product we're developing in PHP, and I've
> recently come across I dilemma that I need to find a reliable solution
> to.
>
> Many of the people who will be
We have a shopping cart product we're developing in PHP, and I've
recently come across I dilemma that I need to find a reliable solution
to.
Many of the people who will be shopping on our sites have cookies
disabled, which presents a problem when using sessions. Now, I am aware
of the fact that w
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