[Catalyst] Browser window/tab independent sessions

[Wade.Stuart at fallon.com]

Perrin Harkins <perrin at elem.com> wrote on 01/08/2007 04:11:47 PM:

> On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 23:34 +0200, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> > And I think this is what is wanted, because I can't see other needs for

> > having 2 separate sessions on the same computer.
>
> Go back and read the original post again.  The problem is with storing
> non-global information, like the current search term, in global storage,
> i.e. a cookie or something tied to a session ID in a cookie.
>
> If you try opening multiple windows on amazon.com, with separate
> searches in each, they will not interfere with each other.  You can page
> through each separately, and your search terms are maintained.  This is
> true regardless of how you opened the window.  That's what this person
> is trying to achieve.
>


It has already been answered I thought.  Cookies are not the answer.
Either place the information unique to each window in url or forms.

There is a reason Amazon's urls look like:
http://www.amazon.com/magazine-newspaper-subscriptions/b/ref=gw_br_zi/002-9304302-2417612?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=599858


instead of:

http://www.amazon.com/magazine-newspaper-subscriptions/

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