strange behavior: session vars, cfid, cftoken, cookies

2004-10-26 Thread Cornillon, Matthieu (Consultant)
Hi. I have a really weird problem here that is hard to summarize, so I am just going to ask anyone if they've had anything even vaguely like this, since that might help me know where to look. I have a sign-in and registration system on my intranet site. Here is the system: a user registers,

Re: strange behavior: session vars, cfid, cftoken, cookies

2004-10-26 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Off the top of my head If you're running clustered servers, there could be some session confusion between servers. just a quick guess Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830

RE: strange behavior: session vars, cfid, cftoken, cookies

2004-10-26 Thread Tangorre, Michael
From: Cornillon, Matthieu (Consultant) . can't prove. Does anyone recognize this kind of behavior at all? Any ideas where I might look for a solution? What version of CF are you running. Michael T. Tangorre ~|

RE: strange behavior: session vars, cfid, cftoken, cookies

2004-10-26 Thread Cornillon, Matthieu (Consultant)
From Michael: What version of CF are you running. I am running CF5.0. From Bryan: If you're running clustered servers, there could be some session confusion between servers. Assuming this is the case, is there anything I can do about it? Thanks! Matthieu

Re: strange behavior: session vars, cfid, cftoken, cookies

2004-10-26 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Personally I never use SESSION vars for the exact issue you seem to be experiencing...loss of sticky sessions across servers. It used to be an issue in CF up to and including CF 5 if memory serves. Apparently it's been fixed in MX. I use a system very similar to yours, but I use a cookie to

RE: strange behavior: session vars, cfid, cftoken, cookies

2004-10-26 Thread Cornillon, Matthieu (Consultant)
Bryan, Thanks for this information. I have more or less stopped using session variables in general (can't stand all that pesky locking business), but that has only happened since I released the sign-in/registration system. I agree about the security hole inherent in the cookie system. I am

Re: strange behavior: session vars, cfid, cftoken, cookies

2004-10-26 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Good stuffand if ya want to pick my brain on what I do...fire away when the time comes ;-) Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: