Re: REmembering User accounts without using cookies.

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From: Ryan Ternier (rternier_at_icompasstech.com.spamproof)
Date: 06/22/04 

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:21:24 -0700

It's not that cookies won't cut it, it's that the lead Designer doesn't want
to use them... plus the people that will be using this system have a system
tighter than... to put it in plain terms... if they wanted to download an
image to their computer, they'd have to go through about 5 different levels
of management to get an OK for it.
"Marina" <someone@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:uCSCMRJWEHA.1652@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> If you don't want cookies, you are pretty much out of options. IE
Security
> wouldn't let you write any files on the client's machines
>
> I'm not sure what you have against cookies, that is a pretty standard way
of
> accomplishing this. You can encrypt the password before storing it in the
> cookie.
>
> "Ryan Ternier" <rternier@icompasstech.com.spamproof> wrote in message
> news:uAztxsHWEHA.4024@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > Hey!
> >
> > We need a solution for a problem. We're designing a site where users
> hate...
> > absolutly hate... with a passion to sign in with a user name / password
> > system. They want to sign in once, and that's it.
> >
> > User's are all behind an internal IP so we can't use the old method of
> > remembering IP's as that would mess up user preferences. We really don't
> > like using cookies either. Is there another method we could use?
Encrypted
> > XML on the client's machine was brought up, but that still has security
> > issues.
> >
> > Is there other options for this scenario?
> >
> >
> > /RT
> > The Monkey at the Keyboard
> >
> >
>
>

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