Beware Maintaining Balances continued....

A few weeks ago I discussed the issue between Coldfusion's ability to separate sessions among different types of browsers and sessions. Well, with further testing, the same scenario can also occur with CLIENT variables. The issue being that a user on a single computer, using two different types of browsers, IE and FF, or FF, and Opera... will be given two different session IDs. Maintaining and relying client balance in session IDs will not sync the balance between the two sessions.

If the balance is stored in a client variable as well, the same scenario can occur. While it may not be an issue of the browser per se, I have run into situations where the client ID between two different types of browsers did not match. Any any activity on one did not get reflected to the other. So Beware.....