Tony <tony23@dslextreme.WHATISTHIS.com> wrote:

I'll be getting what I want regardless of their cookie setting.

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On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:36:49 -0700, hug
<contact_info@sig_line.clickit> posted something that included:

Would you like some other good reasons to reasons to avoid cookies?

Even when they work, they follow a single browser on a single
computer, not a single user.

If Barb surfs at home at 8 AM, and during her 10 AM coffee break, the
cookie isn't there.

If Joe surfs at the library at 10 AM, and Bill surfs on the same
computer at 10:15, the cookie doesn't recognize that it's now Bill
instead of Joe.

If Henry is surfing using Firefox at 7 PM, and the site sends him an
email that he clicks on at 7:15 on the same computer, clicking on the
link opens up the link in MSIE, because Henry is taking a class from
the University of Phoenix which is marginally compatible with MSIE and
extremely incompatible with anything else.

But cookies don't always work. Code that sets a cookie in one browser
may or may not set it in another browser - it's *very* touchy. And the
cookie specification says that browsers are free to discard cookies at
any time, for any reason, or for no reason at all.












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Paul Ding wrote:
It will if each has his own login to the computer.


Never had that problem if cookies are enabled. And yes, they can
discard cookies. In fact, many even have settings allowing you to
determine when they are discarded.

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I noticed that IP addresses can quite frequently even with the one user
visiting you site. Most commercial ISPs reserve a separate range on IP
addresses when you switch from non-SSL to SSL. However this behaviour is
completely by design.

Tracking the identity of a web-visitor by IP address is not good practice.
You should create a session with the user and use the session ID to
determine the identity. A common way of doing this is to create a session
variable and populate it with a value. That same value should be stored
somewhere in your DB. With each page request check the session variable.

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