[ic] past orders for previous customer showing up in new basket

[Ed LaFrance]

At 10:00 AM 06/12/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>When more than one customer shares a computer such as at an Internet cafe,
>the previous orders made by the customer who last shopped at that PC show in
>the basket for the customer who shopped after that.
>
>The first customer logged out. I suspect this has something to do with the
>session not being killed, since the second shopping expedition was done
>shortly after the first.
>
>Any body encountered this before ? I will be searching the mailing list
>archives but hey, there's nothing like helpful folks ...

You are correct - though I can't vouch for the latest (4.7.x), In all other 
versions of IC logging in and out does not initiate a new session 
automatically. You should be able to make it so, if that is what you 
need.  Your code would need to (on logout, let's say) deal with any cookies 
which might have been set, then expire the session in the session 
file.  That way a new session would be started whether the subsequent user 
logged in or not.  You also need to consider whether or not the store will 
require login for access, since login/logout becomes you primary method for 
session management.  Lastly, you may want to set SessionExpire 
(catalog.cfg) to a short value - say 10 minutes - to deal with those who 
fail to end their session gracefully.

- Ed L.



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