http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php Shapeways: Bring your creativity to life in 3D http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=747&th=250#msg_747
and yet another thing I'm wondering about.

Because of the coupon_bug
I've tried with different browsers;
in IE I got a message asking if I want to proceed with my last shopping cart.
(nice!)
And I did... without success though.
Now I'm here with Firefox..
And there is nothing in my shopping cart anymore.

Well in Opera there is, in IE there is, but in Firefox there isn't.

There is a shopping cart cookie stored in Opera,
But I cannot believe that the system is based on cookies... that'd be strange

'sid]]> sid 2008-08-08T12:38:23-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=766&th=250#msg_766
If it is, that wouldn't be strange at all, virtually every session based website uses this type of cookie . All the important information is stored on the server, the cookie just contains a unique identifier to tell the server which session it should look at.

Ben]]> benstabler 2008-08-08T20:28:22-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=768&th=250#msg_768
It looks like Opera and IE are sharing their cookies somehow.]]> robert 2008-08-08T23:31:12-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=771&th=250#msg_771
As I opened the site in IE I got a message if I want to proceed with my last unfinished order.
I clicked on "yes" that's where I got the cookie from.

That message does not appear in Firefox (at least not in v1.705 wich I prefere)

I'd prefere a database instead of the cookie,
for various reasons.

(Almost everybody knows how to fake set or edit a already set cookie)
I don't know if you have a database to doublecheck the cookie with, but I hope so

'sid
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