Posted by Justin Koivisto on 09/27/82 11:36

Peter Fox wrote:
> ...On a single PC with a single browser where multiple users log-in to
> it eg on a PC called FOO there might be users MARY and JOHN is it the
> general practice for browsers to have separate cookie/cache/password
> files so that if JOHN looks at my web page and I previously sent him a
> "you are John" cookie he'll be identified by it and not by the "you are
> Mary" cookie that Mary obtained between times.

IME, yes, the cookies will be specific to the different accounts on the
computer. This is especially true with *nix, mac osx, win xp/2000/nt.
The ones that I am unsure of are Mac OS <= 9.2, win <= 98/me, and any
other operating system not mentioned above.

HTH

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