[FX.php List] Cookie issue

[Bob Patin]

I have a large web application that uses cookies throughout the app to  
track the current user, as well as other info.

The client sells access to his web app to his subscribers, who put a  
link to this site in their own sites.

Most of their clients (auto dealers) want to frame in this site inside  
their own, and that's where the trouble starts: with some web hosts (I  
suspect these are using Windows-based web server software), the act of  
embedding the web app prevents the web app from properly writing  
cookies.

Some of you may recall that I went through this a year ago, and found  
out about Microsoft's ill-conceived Compact Privacy Policy that they  
initiated. Essentially, unless you get a policy and put the proper  
code on your site, Internet Explorer will look at your site with a  
wary eye and not write a cookie when instructed.

SO... we got a policy certificate and installed it; I even spoke with  
one of the people who co-wrote this totally annoying piece of code for  
the web consortium (whose name I forget now).

The problem: some servers still seem to have trouble with our site,  
and cookies don't get written. What this means is that, instead of  
embedding the web app in their site like all these car dealers want,  
they have to put the web app in a new window, which of course  
introduces other problems.

MY QUESTION: Is there a way to use session variables that doesn't use  
cookies? I was thinking that there was. Does anyone have another  
method that they use to pass variables throughout a web app, that  
wouldn't involve cookies? I need to use variables for about 10-20  
pieces of data (company name, address, phone, logo filepath, etc.).

Thanks for any suggestions,

Bob Patin
Longterm Solutions
bob at longtermsolutions.com
615-333-6858
http://www.longtermsolutions.com
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