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1 total messages Started by noel Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:25

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Author: noel
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:25

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Hell all !

I am building a HTTP server using Indy 9 & Borland C++ builder 6...
I am working at implementing persistent sessions and there are a couple
of things i am not sure to understand properly ...

1- My TIdHTTPServer component has the AutoStartSession and 
SessionTimeout set so that sessions are created automatically for
each command handler request thread ... Now since Sessions use cookies
in their implementation, what happens if the users has it's browser set 
not to accept any (or this particular) cookie ?

Question 1: How can i detect if the browser rejected the cookie ?
It seems that the session is created in any case and can't see how to 
detect if the cookie was accepted or not ?

I use a login form and would like to maybe "fall back" to basic 
authentication if the user doesn't accept cookies ?
Any suggestion for a better way to handle persistent sessions ?

Thanks for any help !!!

No�l

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