[3412] in java-interest
Re: Re-identifying a user
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary Strader)
Fri Nov 10 16:49:10 1995
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 10:40:02 -0600
To: gary@post.acadia.net (Gary Robinson), java-interest@java.sun.com
From: Gary Strader <garys@govivo.com>
Cc: kurtg@mail.govivo.com
At 08:42 PM 11/9/95 -0500, Gary Robinson wrote:
>I desperately need some way of automatically identifying a user across
sessions.
>It doesn't have to be perfect. I don't need the level of security involved
>in asking the user for a user ID and password. If anybody wants to pretend
>they're somebody else, that's fine.
>Is there a way to do that? Does the magic cookie mechanism help?
>I was thinking about using Java. The first time a user visits my site, a
>Java applet would generate a random number and save it somewhere. Then, on
>return visits, it would read that random number.
I had Java nightmares last night and a vision came to me: since the only
browser right now that supports Java is Netscape, why doesn't Netscape allow
us to query the unique user ID from the browser, with a getContext or something?
Comments? (esp. from Sun and Netscape ;)
>Gary Robinson
>President
>First Software, Inc.
Gary Strader
Vivo Media
gary@vivo-media.com
www.vivo-media.com
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