I have been hearing on the rumour mill that cookies may be phased out of future browsers for security & privacy reasons. Is this true?

Assuming cookies were suddenly banned -- how would this effect Gossamer Community?

It seems the only way to verify that a user is logged in is via cookies. Am I wrong about this? Or is there a way to detect if a user is logged in without looking at session/gcomm user cookies?

Just curious and thinking ahead.

Thanks,
Mike

Does no one really have nothing to say about this?

I'm confused as to what is meant to replace them? Cookies are a great way to store information locally; and access it through a given site. I don't see how anything could be better than that?

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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Andy,

I totally agree with you! Perhaps it was just a dumb rumour.

Anyway, let's assume cookies will be sticking around. I'm still wondering if there is any other way with GComm besides cookies to detect if a user is logged in?

For example, perhaps you've seen this code Alex gave us:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use GT::CGI;
use Community qw/
comm_init
comm_config
comm_auth
comm_login_url
/;

comm_init('/path/to/community/private');
my $in = new GT::CGI;
my $user = comm_auth( session => $in->cookie('Community_Session') );
if (! $user) {
print $in->redirect( url => comm_login_url() );
}
else {
my $page = $in->param('page');
($page =~ /^\w+\.\w+$/) or ($page = 'index.html');
print $in->header;
open (PAGE, "< $page") or die "open $page ($!)";
print <PAGE>;
close PAGE;
}

This code still requires cookies. Is there any other way to detect a logged in user without cookies?

Just curious.

Thanks,
Mike

Usually there are only 2 ways to track a user:
1) using cookies (storing session id)
2) passing the session id through each link and form

Best regards,
Webmaster33

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I haven't used Gossamer Community, but does it have a table that stores session ID's like their other products?

If so, you can see if a particular user is logged in by checking for the appropriate entry in that table.

Yes, there is a session table.

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