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Old July 19th, 2005, 10:52 AM
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CF Security, Sessions vs Cookies.
Cookies suck
Sessions rule

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Old July 19th, 2005, 11:37 AM
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Unless you're passing the cfid, cftoken, or jsessionid in every URL and form, sessions are based on a cookie that holds these identifiers!
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Old July 19th, 2005, 12:06 PM
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ERr...so what you're saying is even with sessions you get cookies...but still, when I was just using cookies it was all sorts of problems, switched over to sessions and I guess it handles the cookies better, or the cookies are server side (I think) which gives less room for error.
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Cookies Rule
whats the beef with cookies, theyve helped me out numerous times especially to keep track of the user to log last login, or who posted what.

Yeah i know only so much space is allowed for the cookie and you cant have too many of em' but pish posh 1 or 2 does the job.

-Tha CookieMonster
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Nothing wrong with cookies. I especially like ones with chocolate or peanutbutter. Or both. MMmmmmmmmm.....cookie goodness....
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my problem was getting a user to login at a login page and then direct them to a different page depending on the login...

using cflocation right after the cfloguserin tag, the cookie for some reason never set itself properly...don't know why, so esentially I couldn't do what I wanted without using sessions and cookies.

But yes, I agree, chocolate chip cookies are where it's at.
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The first couple forays into cookies for logging in were hell. I never figured out why I had problems with it--probably a stupid logic issue--but it did color the use of cookies for a while. So I can totally relate.
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