Cookierelated problem

[Anon]

Hi all.

Cookies themselves are no problem, they are great. But those who not use them... They are a problem 😡

If I simply want to deny all non-cookie-users from the site, what's the best way of doing so?

Thanks in advance,
/Thomas

[reagent]

Do NOT do this. Do you really want to deny access to your site to people who do not have cookies enabled? This is a bad idea. Why not look into using sessions and propagating the session id between pages to simulate the use of cookies. While they won't be saved between browser sessions, they will keep their state for the current session.

If you did want to check to see if a user has cookies enabled, just do the following:

have 2 pages, one that sets a cookie, and another that tries to read it. (remember, you can't set and read a cookie on the same page). Once the cookie is set, forward them to the new page, and if you can't read the value, they can't accept cookies.

p.

[Anon]

Well...

I just asked the question... To add more info to this:
I do have a session system installed and TRANSID compiled with PHP. But for some very sick reason it doesn't quite work like it should.

The transparent id works perfect when using a href, form action and so on but for that reason I don't understand it also runs the session handler for images that don't work.

Scenario:
User not accepting cookies visit the site.
He's given a session id and the page is refreshed with the id in get_vars.
On the page there is an fully transparent image and an image which hasn't got a target (broken image) another session is added for every time this occur.

This doesn't do much harm unless you want to know how many sessions are active... And since I do it's almost unusuable since a single user not accepting cookies easily'll "spam" up another 100 sessions... =(

So while waiting for a solution to that I was wondering if there were a simple way of denying cookies. I tried just checking in the handler is session-cookie was set and unless it was send the user to another page but sometimes user that do have cookies enabled are sent there too... Tough 🙁

Thanks,
/Thomas