Re: Session understanding

Hello, The site is for a ticket tracking system, if a CSR has a window open and is working on company A - I would like to save some information about company A in a session variable. Since the session is stored in the DB I figured it was save. Then if the CSR need to look up another company and opens another window I want to make sure that the session variable I just set containing company A is not over written. ... Is there a better way to do this ... I was hoping to not have to pass variables between each page by including them in the URL. Michael. On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:11:37 -0400 "John Holmes" <holmes072000@charter.net> wrote: > From: "Michael Gale" <michael.gale@utilitran.com> > > > I have a small issue with sessions, at the moment I am using sessions on > > our web site and storing the session > > information in a db_table. It is working great. Right now I am only > > storing the users ID, name and role in the session > > data, but I would like to store other information as well. The problem is > > ... that if that person opens another browser > > window and connects to the site another session is not created. > > > > So if I try and store a variable that would be unique to each window it > > would get over written. Is this a configuration > > problem ? > > Session are identified by a cookie (by default). No matter what window or > how many windows the user has, the same session ID is going to be sent in a > cookie when a request is made to your site. So there's no way to tell the > requests from different windows apart. > > Why do you really need to know if a new window is opened or not? > > ---John Holmes... > > > > > -- Michael Gale Network Administrator Utilitran Corporation