Posted by Benjamin Niemann on 07/19/07 15:29

Hello,

Ciaran wrote:

> I was wondering if it's possible to starta server session without
> using a browser? I'm hoping to login to my webmail account from a
> flash application or maybe google desktop gadget. Does anyone know if
> this is possible please?

Sessions usually require a cookie store on the client-side. So in order to
get this working the user-agent must be able to understand the 'Set-Cookie'
HTTP header and add the received cookie (or cookies) to every following
request.
Sometimes the session id is also passed around using a query parameter in
the URL - which would make things a bit easier to implement on the
client-side.

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Benjamin Niemann
Email: pink at odahoda dot de
WWW: http://pink.odahoda.de/

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