Re: sessions: what to do when browser won't accept cookies?

In article <3D5D14EB.5040505@myrealbox.com>, jean_christian@myrealbox.com (Jean-Christian Imbeault) wrote: > How can I get around the problem of not having the SID in the URL of the > first page to my site the user comes to? It kind of a chicken-or-the-egg > problem ... I kind of hate it when sites do this, but you could have the first page reload itself if it doesn't have an SID, and add an SID to itself. This way, if they use the back button, the first "first page" they come to has the SID. You might then be able to use window.forward() in Javascript first, before giving them an SID. If they used the back button to get to you, window.forward() moves forward to a page that has an SID (which should look exactly like the page they thought they wanted that didn't have an SID). If they didn't use the back button to get to you, window.forward shouldn't do anything. As a fall-back, you would probably want to have a warning on the front page that says, if the front page has no SID, that if they used the back button get here, use the forward button to go back or they might lose their session data. This depends on your audience, of course. If you did that to me as a general browser, I probably wouldn't ever visit your site again :*) Note that some sites do come right out and tell you not to use your back button to get around. You might just do this, and if they use their back button anyway, they get a new session. Jerry -- http://www.hoboes.com/jerry/ "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish, and you've depleted the lake."--It Isn't Murder If They're Yankees (http://www.hoboes.com/jerry/Murder/)