Re: [MacPerl] Timeout script

[Brian "L." Matthews <blm@halcyon.com>]

|While that's true, you can engage in some webfoolery to implement it.
|If you assign a unique ID to each visitor upon login, you can keep track
|of transactions by ID.  If a time has elapsed since the last transaction
|for that ID (e.g., 180 secs), you can no longer allow the transactions. 

|It is possible to include a key, possibly made up of IP address, time, and
|user id.  Then one could keep track of the key/cookie/etc to handle logout
|times.

This is all true, and as long as you can deal with people with slow
connections, people who are slow readers, reassigned IP addresses, IP
addresses serving multiple users, users who don't allow cookies, etc.,
it will all work fine. :-) And then of course someone with a fast
connection will come along and just snarf your whole site.

This doesn't have much (if anything) to do with MacPerl, so I suggest
the discussion be moved to one of the comp.infosystems.www.* newsgroups.

Brian

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