[imp] logout and cookies

Jan Schneider jan@horde.org
Thu, 4 Jul 2002 00:39:55 +0200


Zitat von Igor Stroh <stroh@scan-plus.de>:

> I wonder what's the reason behind keeping horde's cookie after logout. I
> mean if some's logged out, then no more information should be stored,
> right? The cookies is gone only if the browser is closed...

We don't keep the cookie but we regenerate it. It's for the same reason that
we create the cookie before login: We store a secret and some information in
it that needs to be persistent through the whole session, that is from
opening the login screen 'til logging out or closing the browser.

Jan.

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