Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 07/20/07 14:42

Ciaran wrote:
> "Benjamin Niemann" <pink@odahoda.de> wrote in message
> news:f7o002$fob$1@online.de...
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Benjamin Niemann
>> Email: pink at odahoda dot de
>> WWW: http://pink.odahoda.de/
>
> Hmm, that doesnt sound too promising. I think my webmail program uses
> cookies to store the session. The urls are fairly simple. I was thinking of
> embedding the flash swf in a html file but I'm not sure if the google
> desktop gadgets support html. I think it might just be XML. Any ideas on
> this?
>
>
What are you actually trying to do? Are you trying to keep tabs on an
webmail account without constantly going to the site and check if there
are messages? If so browsers like Firefox have extensions that poll
webmail account.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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