[imp] next user resuming pre. user session......

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck@horde.org
Wed, 1 Nov 2000 15:27:09 -0500


Quoting David Powicki <dpowicki@oit.umass.edu>:

> We have two versions of IMP running, 2.2.4 (testing)  and 2.2.0 (production).
> Using both versions with IE 5.5 on MACs/PCs  and Netscape 4.0/4.7 on MACs/PCs we
> have discovered that users can resume previous users sessions if the 1st user
> CLOSES the browser and does NOT log out.
> 
> Is this a known problem and is there any way to solve it?

With IE, at least - IE won't release auth info (HTTP logins, session
cookies, whatever) until you quit _all_ instances of the browser. It
shouldn't happen in netscape unless users are closing (_not_ quitting) the
browser.

-chuck

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