Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>When a user edits, we request a cookie "usertoken" or whatever. If
>they do not have one, we generate a long random number and give them
>one. Every edit made by that browser (no matter which user is logged
>in) the cookie is returned. We add an extra column to recent changes
>to store this value.
>A new version of sockcheck is produced that finds users who share
>revisions with the same token, much like we can do with IPs already.
>Viola, cookie based sockcheck.
>Thoughts?
Can a cookie carry between different IPs for the same browser? i.e.,
user hangs up and dials again for a different IP?
- d.