[ic] Session: Cookie or Query String?

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Wed Jun 27 10:16:47 EDT 2007


> > What do you guys think is the best way to determine if a particular
> > session is being tracked via a cookie or a query string?
> >
> You shouldn't need to determine that at all.  Interchange takes care
> of the session itself, so you don't have to.
>
> If you really want to know, then use [read-cookie MV_SESSION_ID].
> If that tag returns a value then a MV_SESSION_ID cookie exists and
> Interchange will be using it to track the session.
>
>     http://www.interchange.rtfm.info/icdocs/tags/read-cookie.html

Thanks Kevin, I'll use that to determine if an order placed was making
use of the session cookie or not.  I'm trying to weigh the pros and
cons of mv_no_session (no session in the URL ever) vs.
mv_no_session_id (no session in the URL unless cookie returned).

- Grant


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