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Re: Virtual cookies (was: Re: Editing Member Pages & Netscape)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 11 Jun 2000 17:59:59 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Can you let it check for a cookie on the machine first, and if present, use
> that
See <http://www.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=6878>
> (a particular machine may have different details such as org, for
> whatever reason), and can you, when one goes to step 2, present the "virtual
> cookie" as a starting point if the machine doesn't already have one?
There's only one "virtual cookie" per member record -- so it doesn't support
multiple news-posting configs.
> With these additions you can easily load cookies by logging in, doing the
> config thing, saving a cookie and now you can log out again.
That's not quite how it works -- it doesn't send you a cookie when you sign
in. Rather, it notices that you've got a "virtual cookie" in your member
record, and if you go to post, it uses that instead of relying on a real
cookie.
Thus, it completely eliminates the need for real cookies other than the one
sign-in cookie.
> That way you're
> only logged in when you need to be. I'm not sure I really want to leave my
> machine logged in at home all the time, no sense in letting my kids and
> random visitors to my house be able to do stuff like modify my member pages.
Ya, when you sign out, your sign-in cookie will go away, and, then your
virtual cookie in your member record won't be available.
> For posting config this may be overkill but if you extend it to any other
> cookies you may introduce I think it gives a lot of power.
It also handles the news/mail config thing
http://www.lugnet.com/news/mail/
and the newsgroup filter thing
http://www.lugnet.com/news/filter/
Same deal there -- (1) be signed in, then (2) hit 'submit' on those forms
(or whatever the button is named) and then that info will be extracted from
your real cookie and stored in a virtual cookie. Then you can delete the
real cookies (if you want) using a text editor or whatever. They stay there
by default in case you still want to use them if you sign out.
--Todd
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