[ANSTHRLD] Help with OSCAR from my Electronic Commenting class

Tim McDaniel tmcd at panix.com
Thu Sep 6 20:53:09 PDT 2012


On Thu, 6 Sep 2012, Kathleen O'Brien <mari_1184 at att.net> wrote:
> Yeah, I'm not surprised.  Which is why I asked the question.  I've seen this
> problem on production software I've tested over my career.  At least in those
> cases, it had to do with cookie management across multiple instantiations of
> the same process (the browser window).  The browser would get confused about
> which cookie went with which window and decide, "ah heck, they all go to all
> the windows!"  And, at least in some cases, it's due at least in part to the
> browser itself.  So, like always, you can go scream part of your frustration
> at Microsoft (or whoever).
>
> The workaround in those production software cases was to either open the 2
> browser windows from different machines or else open one in one product (IE)
> and the other one in a different product (Firefox).  Aren't those just lovely
> workarounds...

Or the software can avoid using cookies, instead storing state in each
page itself (hidden fields, I think).  How convenient or inconvenient
it is I don't know.

Daniel Delindquist
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Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com



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