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

[Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com>]

Quoting Ed LaFrance (edl@newmediaems.com):
> 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.
> 

With 4.7.x, you can set two things:

	UserDB  default  clear_cookie MV_USERNAME MV_PASSWORD
	UserDB  default  clear_session 1

You can clear arbitrary cookies, and nuke the session completely
on logout.

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