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Thunderstone
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Hello,
I am attempting to modify the search results page.
When the webinator does a search it does so with a session id.
then when it builds the results page with the various URLs
it include those session IDs. Is there anyway that I can
modify the search so that it doesn't use the Session Id for the
displayed URLs.
The thing I am attempting to do is to set up multiple databases
with multiple users (each with different access privleges). I want
to eventually have it so that one group of users search cannot
see the same results of another user group's search.
The sesssion IDs are always used in the URL results and I want to
eliminate this or hide it in some way.

Thank you very much for your help.

-M


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session id

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What you're calling a session id is state information. It is needed to
remember what the user is doing across clicks. I don't see how this
is a problem for setting up user access control. In fact, you'll need
it to keep track of the logged in user. See <export> and $url in the manual.

The only way to not get the state information would be to not export anything.
But then you would have to pass everything manually in a cookie or something.
Not fun.


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