Is it common to use cflogin ?

Question

Hi, I'm using cflogin for my login/logoff actions inside my
application.cfm(sample pasted below). There is basically only a few
users on this app. I'm new to coldfusion so my questions are:
1. Is this a new common practice to use cflogin?
2. In firefox, every time I login, I see a cookie generated,
but in IE, I don't seem to see a cookie being generated so how come
it still works in IE, is cookie hidden?
Thanks so much for your help,
C
My sample cflogin code:
<cflogin>
<cfif NOT IsDefined("cflogin")>
<cfinclude template="loginform.cfm"> <cfabort>
<cfelse>
<cfif cflogin.name eq "admin">
<cfset roles = "user,admin">
.......

Answer 1

1. In the future, I may have to incorporate roles into my
login system,
I've seen this code before, I was wondering if you had any
comments or
experiences on this?
Yes it can, then you use the isUserInRole() function to
determine get a
boolean of whether the user is in a given role. This is one
of the
limitations that prompted us to role our own system. You can
ask if a
user is in a given role, but you can not ask, what role(s) is
a user in.
2. Dan, in my cflogin code in application.cfm, I don't set
any cookie
(not knowingly), but it still seems to work, is this a
problem in my
code that I have to investigate ?
CF automatically sets the needed cookies, CFIDE/CFTOKEN
usually. You
only need to worry about this if you want to insure that
these cookies
are temporary memory cookies that expire that the closing of
the
browser. Otherwise they default to being permanent cookies
with
temporary values in them.