Re: multiple copies of a browser

> How does one distinquish Requests and Replys coming from different copies
> of a browser? Request.getUserAgent() doesn't do it, for requests from two
> browser windows yielded the same result: "Mozilla/4.04 [en] (WinNT; I)".
> 
> Thanks,
> Gil
> 
> 
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> 

 I am sorry but nothing in HTTP allows you to do that. If two users, on the
 same machine, send a request, with the same kind of browser (like netscape)
 the server is unable to make the difference.

 benoit.

 

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Received on Wednesday, 7 January 1998 03:16:49 UTC