[dev] multiple different user logins

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck@horde.org
Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:10:32 -0500


Quoting Michael Bull <mbull@uoguelph.ca>:

> What are the operational differences between cookies and get mode sessions? 
> What's the tradeoff?

Well, the main one is that with url-based (get mode), the session id is right 
there in the URL, in log files, in proxies.... etc. It decreases security and 
privacy a bit.

> Is the configuration for them easy enough to find in the config files..?

It's a php.ini directive - session.use_cookies.

-chuck

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