Is Internet Explorer 5 Persistence as Secure as Internet Explorer 4.0 Discardable-Browser Properties?
As explained earlier in this article, Internet Explorer 4.0 discardable-browser properties are not secure at all! However, accessing these discardable properties through the PropertyCache control is secure because we added the security elements to the sample control itself. This is automatically done for you in Internet Explorer 5—all state information is secured to the domain itself, so only pages located on the same domain as the page which cached the information are allowed to retrieve it. The only difference is that in addition to securing the data to same-domain access, the PropertyCache sample control also implements the ability to secure the data to the vroot of the creating page. So get busy!
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