"Mark Kuiphuis" <maluka@remove_this.koekeloekoe.nl> wrote in message
news:c4**********@reader11.wxs.nl...
If a user uses CTRL+N a new window (assuming Winblows Internet Exploder)
is opened and the session-id in the new window is exactly the same as
the originating window. If they click the shortcut on the desktop or in
the start menu or wherever else they set the shortcut, than that browser
has a new session-id....
It all depends on whether the browsers belong to the same process. If they
do, then session cookies (ones that vanish when the browser shuts down) are
shared. On systems with more than 32megs of memory, a new process will start
every time you double-click the IE icon. When you open a new window by
hitting Ctrl-N, or through File > Open, or by holding down the ctrl key when
you click on a link, that window will stay with the parent process. On
systems with less than 32megs of ram, all browser windows (as well as the
Windows shell)are of the same process.
Netscape and Opera will run only as one process, so session cookies are
always shared.
As far as I know there is no way you can associate a HTTP request with a
particular window. You might be able to create some kind of locking
mechanism by setting a cookie value in the onload handler, and clearing it
in onunload, but I doubt it would work very well.