Instances in IE, but none in FF?

[adelante]

I'm making a small web-login-cookie-session-thing for my work, their setup is like this:

1x server, 20x skinny clients

Now, when the users log in, I have made it work, so that each client is logged in separately, when they are using IE - they each got a session ID running.

However when I try in FF, and I open a new browser, it just copies the session from the first user, and is automatically signed in, as if they are the first user.

Is that just the way it is? or is there anything to do about it? We are using IE at work, but I would like the web thing to work if they change to FF someday.

 

[feherke]

Hi

However when I try in FF, and I open a new browser, it just copies the session from the first user, and is automatically signed in, as if they are the first user.

I am not sure I understand you. On the same computer you open two FireFox windows to the same site and want to be signed in one and not in the other ?

Is that just the way it is?

Yes. I am sure FireFox does what you ask for.

or is there anything to do about it?

Yes. Post your code. Otherwise would be hard to tell you where the problem is.

By the way, your question is closer to forum452.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[adelante]

Sorry about my bad explanation.

I would like my webapplication to work on =>> (I dont know what you call that kind of setup, but you got 1 server and 20 small machines without any harddisks connected to it as small workstations)

my $cookie = new CGI::Cookie(-name=>'session',-value=>"$sessionid");
print header(-cookie=>[$cookie],-expires=>'now');

In IE, i enter the URL and get a new site, and I have to enter my login data (password and username)
If I doubleclick on the IE icon, and enter the URL again, I get a new fresh site and have to sign in again, I can even sign in as another user. Perfect for the setup I got at work!

But in FF: if someone has already signed in, and I doubleclick on the FF icon and enter the URL, then FF thinks I'm already signed in and I see all the data that user#1 signed in to see.

So, my question: is it possible to have multiply unique sessions running on a server/same computer in different browser windows, if I'm using FF or is it only possible in IE?

I solved it for IE with the code above, but it doesn't trick FF.

Any ideas will help.

 

[KevinADC]

I doubt you can fix this behavior with perl, check the browser settings.

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[adelante]

It's not a perl issue!

I was just wondering if anyone know if only IE can have multiple session running on the same computer, or FF can do it too?

"Same computer" = 1 server + 20 clients (I think it's called citrix)

 

[Kirsle]

I don't think so. When you double-click the Firefox icon, it checks to see if FF is still running, and if so, tells that instance of the program to open a new window... as opposed to IE, where it's possible to have several different "iexplore.exe" processes running at once, whereas you'll only have one "firefox.exe" running at a time.

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[adelante]

Thanks! that's what I needed to know...
"It's NOT possible"

But I wonder how firefox and online bank stuff works on a citrix solution??

If someone in the coffebreak logon and do something, and someone else is doing the same, person number two suddently sees person 1's account info.... owell, not my problem.

Thanks alot!

 

[KevinADC]

Why are you asking in he perl forum? Ask in the IE or FF forum (or general browser) forum.

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[KevinADC]

I still think it's a browser setting. I would carefully check the IE settings and the FF settings.

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[Kirsle]

On another quick note: Firefox will only run one instance at a time, *per computer session*

i.e. if you're on Windows XP with Fast User Switching, and log on as one user, open Firefox, get some cookies set, and then log on as another user, open Firefox... you won't share the same cookies.

Or if you have 2 different computers, and computer A goes to this site and gets cookies, computer B doesn't share the same cookies. Got it? Logged on as one user, on one machine, you can only have one "firefox.exe" running.

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[adelante]

Ohh, Ok, I was getting worried, because I thought to myself: if they got 20 clients connected to a a server and just ONE cookie folder then people will log on as eachother. Imagine person A checking his hotmail, and person B goes to hotmail.com and bing! he can peep in person A's hotmail, because they are both using FF.

Anyway, if they have made it right each user will have his own cookie folder, in the taskmanager I remember I once saw some numbers representing each client, so the citrix system must keep track of it somehow...hopefully.

Well, I got it working on IE, and if people are using FF, and citrix ISN'T setup the way it should have been, then I still got a problem.

Thanks