Hi,
I'm in the design phase of creating an application for a few K-12 school districts. A friend of mine told me that he has had problems creating a login using session variables for K-12 schools because sometimes the school's server is a proxy server and can mix up the identities of the users. Something about server caching and how Joe Smith might login first, then when Mary Jones logs in she's occasionally actually logging in as Joe (the previous user) because of the caching.
I really don't know much about proxy servers, caching etc. so does anyone have any advice for me on this before I get too far into development?
Should I just assume that some K-12 schools' servers will have this problem because of the tight filtering they need to do each day?
Should I try to use cookies for authentification instead? Attempt to clear the server's cache?
Thanks!
Mike
I'm in the design phase of creating an application for a few K-12 school districts. A friend of mine told me that he has had problems creating a login using session variables for K-12 schools because sometimes the school's server is a proxy server and can mix up the identities of the users. Something about server caching and how Joe Smith might login first, then when Mary Jones logs in she's occasionally actually logging in as Joe (the previous user) because of the caching.
I really don't know much about proxy servers, caching etc. so does anyone have any advice for me on this before I get too far into development?
Should I just assume that some K-12 schools' servers will have this problem because of the tight filtering they need to do each day?
Should I try to use cookies for authentification instead? Attempt to clear the server's cache?
Thanks!
Mike