This topic can turn into a philosophical war so I'm just speaking from my
experience. Your situation may be different and warrant a different
approach.
I recently built a site and used both methods for tracking the client
session. One of the users of the system was a company that used a proxy
server for their corporate Internet access. The proxy server cached the
URLTOKEN on the URL Address line and then all employees could see another
person's information. (That was bad!) I fixed it by removing the URLTOKEN
and using cookies only, since cookies are pushed all the way down to the
browser and bypass the proxy server. 90% of the people have cookies enabled
and the default installation for the current versions of Internet Explorer
and Netscape have cookies enabled.
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 9:13 AM
To: Fusebox
Subject: Re: newbie - CFID problem
I would really suggest using both, that way if cookies are disabled you will
still be able to keep track of visitors
Regards
Doug
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Knaub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 6:22 AM
Subject: RE: newbie - CFID problem
> Not sure about the IP address issues. One thing I have learned is it is
MUCH
> better to use cookies instead of appending the URLTOKEN to the links. You
> may want to try enabling client cookies (setclientcookies="yes") in your
> CFAPPLICATION tag and then try it from your various IP addresses. Since
> cookies are stored on the Web browser it should work much better.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erikk Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 11:23 AM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: newbie - CFID problem
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm having an odd problem. I am using client variables and the database
to
> keep track of user logins just like in the Fusebox book. I append the
> request.urltoken to all the links. The login process works fine when I
> test it using 192.168.0.1. It keeps track of who is logged in even after
> closing and reopening the browser. However when i test it using the IP of
> my cable modem it does not work correctly. If I login, then go to some
> other website and come back to the login page I must login again. I
> noticed that when I use the IP of the cable modem to view the pages
> everytime I leave the site and come back, the CFID is increased by
> one. When I view the site using 192.168.0.1, the CFID stays the same even
> if I leave the page or close the browser and reopen it. I thought that
the
> problem was not changing the request.webroot to whatever IP I was
> using. But I changed it to be the IP of my cable modem and I still had
the
> same problem. Any ideas? Thanks!
>
> Erikk
>
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