With all browsers, session cookies are usually shared within a OS process
The default IE behavior is to share the process whenver new windows are
opened with CTRL-N. If you execute a shortcut to IE, it will open a window
attached to a different process.
Netscape 4.x in both Windows and Linux always runs different windows within
the same process. Changing this behavior needs a rebuild in Linux. I don't
know how Netscape 6 behaves.
Opera is a MDI application, and also, session cookies are always shared
within an Opera instance.
Corollary: If a user logs off in a browser window, he'll be logged off in
(practically) every other browser window.
P.S. : this stands only for FORM based auth. Basic Auth is sent by the
browser as needed and doesn't require http session capabilities on the
server side.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trevor Squires [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 12:49 PM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: Re: Paged search results
>
>
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Gary Shea wrote:
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> > It seems to me that if you have multiple browsers open and they're
> > sharing an application like Netscape does, they will all have the
> > same session unless you're using URL rewriting. My experience with
> > Netscape and Konqueror (sorry I don't know anything about IE) is
> > that once a cookie is established on any one browser, all the rest
> > will begin submitting it. As a result, if you're using cookie-based
> > sessions, then your browsers are all in the same session. If you're
> > using URL rewriting they'll all have independent sessions.
>
> In IE (perhaps only on NT, dunno) you can configure it so
> that all browser
> windows are in a separate process space. This means that
> non-persistent
> cookies are *not* shared between windows AFAIK.
>
> Trevor
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