Re: Prevent IE6 from blocking cookies

From: Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 20:10:23 +0000
Subject: Re: Prevent IE6 from blocking cookies
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* Thus wrote Justin Patrin (papercrane@reversefold.com): > Nick Wilson wrote: > > >* and then Scot L. Harris declared.... > > > >>Face it, if web sites could override such settings there would be a lot > >>more malicious web sites out there. > > > > > >Absolutely. You cant mess with peoples preffered settings. It's EVIL ;-) > > > >Best you can do is make provision for those without cookies enabled: > > > >Use JS, > > > >if (cookies are enabled) { > > set the damn coookie > >} else { > > use sessions... > >} > > > > Of course, sessions use cookies, so that won't work either. ;-) > > You *can* use URL rewriting to have PHP add the session ID to all of > your urls and forms, but this isn't fool-proof. If you really want to > support non-cookie sessions, you have to add the session id to all of > your urls and forms yourself. transid helps this a bit. Its possible to enable both cookie/transid methods together. The trick is finding out on the first request which method is going to be used. Curt -- "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."

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