> > I dont know if its a big deal, well.. It is actually. heres the deal. If
> > you're in the web interface doing something, let say messing
> > with your filters, the url can possibly be hacked. I copied
> > the url and pasted it into a different browser ...
>Comments?
That's standard with web pages.
The web was designed to be stateless; that is, when you go to a web page,
it's not supposed to matter whether you were at other web pages at that
site or not.
Back when the first "stateful" web pages (web pages that remember who you
are between connections) were developed (we were one of the pioneers), the
standard method of identifying a user was based on their IP. But,
sometimes people share IPs, and Prodigy started a horrible system of
switching IPs (the one AOL uses now). So, you then have to deal with other
methods of identifying a user throughout a session, such as a code in the
URL or cookies or basic authentication. Unfortunately, each one has its
own drawbacks, and each one will allow a user at an Internet cafe to log
back on under certain circumstances.
-Scott
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