Re: Encrypted URL

[Fred van Engen <fred.van.engen () xbn nl>]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 10:43:08AM -0500, Dean Saxe wrote:
> We have this problem with our apps.  It appears that MSIE, depending on how
> its installed, will sometimes share session cookies between browsers,
> causing what you describe below.  Other times it will not share those
> session cookies, effectively allowing multiple browser windows to access a
> single app and differentiate between them.

IE shares cookies between browser windows in the same process. I.e. if
you open a new window with Ctrl-N from an existing window, you share
cookies. If you open a new browser window from your Windows task bar or
Start menu, you don't share cookies. HTTP login credentials work the
same.


> Unfortunately, this appears to be an option at installation and I don't know
> if it can be changed on the fly through registry settings or preferences.
> If it can be changed it would save me a lot of headaches with end users and
> QA. ;-)

I recall that there used to be a browser option forcing the use of an
existing process for new windows, even when you opened them from outside
a running IE process. Can't find it in IE6 though.


Regards,

Fred.

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