From: Eric Schwartz <emschwar@...>
Date: 2002-10-22T04:54:36+09:00
Subject: Re: CGI sessions without cookies?

patrick-may@monmouth.com (Patrick May) writes:
> Stefan Scholl <stefan.scholl@brave.de> wrote in message news:<ao1amv$1u5$2@frost.brave.de>...
> > I haven't tried sessions, yet. But I'm curious if you can work
> > with sessions without using cookies.
> 
> sessions and cookies are married topics.  A "session" is data indexed
> by a key sent to a client in a cookie.

Not necessarily; it's possible to track a session without using cookies.
URL rewriting is one obvious technique, but I'm sure there are others.

-=Eric
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