Posted by J.O. Aho on 11/27/06 06:04

crescent_au@yahoo.com wrote:

> I am creating a login system. I am using sessions. It's working fine. I
> have seen some login systems where they pass session id as part of URL.
> I am not doing it in my login system but it's working fine. I just
> wanted to know why is it necessary to pass session id by URL? I have
> chosen not to do it. Am I missing something?

As not everyone uses cookies, as they are so commonly used to track what sites
a person visits, so cookie based sessions won't work for everyone.


//Aho

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