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List:       twig-devel
Subject:    RE: [twig-devel] BUG:  sqltable vs. cookie
From:       Daniel Cunningham <lists () denverdomain ! com>
Date:       2000-04-27 16:09:58
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Yes, we manged to  do something similir by having the app output extra data to 
the url (it was almost a year ago, so I having touble remember exactly what we 
did). The incident was a little scary at time, the app was a front end to 
peoples 401k data, boy did we get that one fixed fast ;-)

Daniel-
  
"m. allan noah" <anoah@pfeiffer.edu> said:

> we have found success in combating aol via both of those methods, and an
> additional method. try adding some unique crap to the end of your url string,
> rather than as cgi input. ie:
> 
> http://www.my.com/index/AB3D1F90/foo?cgivar=cgival
> 
> this will fool aol into thinking that /index/AB3D1F90/foo is the actual file
> you are accessing, even when index is the thing (mod_perl) that handled the
> request, and the rest is either ignored, or used to store information...
> 
> allan
> 
> Daniel Cunningham <lists@denverdomain.com> said:
> 
> > I had experienced similar problems with a online app I co developed and AOL. 
> > AOL has some unorthadoxed caching methods, and sometimes does not play well 
> > with others.  AOL recomends using the "no-cache" meta tag in every page as
> well 
> > as having a "?" in the url (wich we have).  Same thing was happining, two
> users 
> > who were in the system at similar times (both on AOL) were seing each others 
> > data.
> > 
> > Daniel-
> > 
> > 
> > Jaime Kikpole <jkikpole@cdcsd.k12.ny.us> said:
> > 
> > 
> > > "m. allan noah" <anoah@pfeiffer.edu> said: 
> > > > jamie- sounds like a classic caching issue. are your users in question
> going
> > > > thru a proxy server either port forced or via their configs? i see stuff
> > > like
> > > > this all the time at work with clients who have fiddled with their proxy
> > > > server or clientside caching settings...
> > > 
> > > 	The woman in the middle school that experienced this was not using a
> proxy,
> > > caching or otherwise.  I wasn't knowingly using one, but its possible that
> my
> > > cable-modem ISP is using one.  I don't think that any employees of the
> > > district would be in my PoP, though.  (PoP = Point of Pressence)
> > > 
> > > 							Jaime
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Network Administrator
> > > Cairo-Durham Central School District
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Daniel Cunningham
> > daniel@denverdomain.com
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
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> 



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Daniel Cunningham
daniel@denverdomain.com

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