Online documentation - WebsydianExpress v3.5 |
WebsydianExpress uses a cookie in order to support the following features:
The cookie written is a session cookie and has the name WSYID1[URL]. E.g. if the URL to the application is http://www.mydomain.com/express/site/basicsite, then the cookie name will be WSYID1/express20/site/basicsite. Thus WebsydianExpress will store a cookie for each site accessed (including the administration site).
The cookie value is signed, so it is not possible to manipulate with the cookie value to gain access to other users session without this being discovered by WebsydianExpress.
Please note that WebsydianExpress only uses session cookies which are deleted once the browser is closed.
The WebsydianExpress cookie will be deleted in the following situations:
If WebsydianExpress is used on a computer with public access then a user should always log out of WebsydianExpress (delete the cookie) using one of the above methods; preferably both.
WebsydianExpress will reload in the browser window in the following situations:
When a site is reloaded WebsydianExpress will do the following:
There are some differences in how different browsers handles sessions cookies.
When you open a new instance of Firefox (either from the Windows Start menu or using File->New Window) all cookies will be shared across these instances. This means that if you login to WebsydianExpress and then open a new browser window and enter the URL for WebsydianExpress, you will automatically be using the session from the other browser session.
When you open a new instance of Internet Explorer using File->New Window all cookies will be shared across these instances. This means that if you login to WebsydianExpress and then open a new browser window and enter the URL for WebsydianExpress, you will automatically be using the session from the other browser session.
However, if you open a new browser instance using the Windows Start menu, then this browser window will run in a separate process and not share cookies with previously opened browser instances. So if you then enter the URL for the WebsydianExpress application you will be starting a new session in WebsydianExpress.