September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
13h 6m
English
| Q1: | What can I do to manage user sessions if a user has cookies turned off? |
| A1: | Unfortunately, if your site’s visitors are using a browser that doesn’t support cookies, or they have cookies turned off, there isn’t an easy alternate method for session management. One option is to include session identifiers as part of the URL on your site. To use this strategy, every link on your site has to be generated dynamically with the user’s session ID included as part of the URL. This is a lot of work, but if you want to support all users, it’s necessary. One site that uses such a scheme is Amazon.com. Session IDs are stored in a cookie, but they are also included in all of the links on the site. |
| Q2: | Can cookies be used to steal my email address, ... |
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