Return of the live-gerbil! [A Bug's Life]

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live_gerbil, an old account I have fired up and plan to use for hamstering-related links.

also, have headache and this was easier than doing proper work

also also, it irks me that i can't be logged in as

bugshaw in one browser tab, and as

live_gerbil in another. it's as if lj didn't want people to have multiple accounts...

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That's an internet/browser thing, not an LJ thing. A site can only set a cookie for itself, and if it sets another with the same sort of details it overwrites the previous one. You can always fire up a different flavour of browser to sit alongside your original if you like.

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Ah, thank you for the explanation. I was sure it used to be possible at one point, but maybe I am misremembering.

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Developers sometimes try to write web apps to work without cookies. (For instance some people switch off cookies for privacy reasons). They put the identification token in each and every URL. This is basically a nightmare to program and even if it was available in the past has probably been dropped.

PS I wrote my explanation without having read hawkida's perfectly good explanation which was posted first..

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Cookies are limited to a single browser - so for instance I usually keep firefox for my alexmc account, but use safari (or ie) for my "NSFW" LJ account.

Of course this isnt separate tabs in the same browser but may be ok for you.

I dont really think this is a problem with LJ but more a limitation of identification in web applications.

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You can't log into two accounts at once in a single browser (because of cookies).

What you can do though is while logged into one account make a journal entry in another account. If you click on 'switch' next to the username on the update journal page you can make that entry post to

live_gerbil.

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Gosh! So I can. Thanks!

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Those comments about cookies and browsers are only partially correct. Certainly if you use different browsers it will work.

When you (as a programmer) define a cookie and send it back to the person who is browsing you define not only the domain it applies to but can also specify the path it applies to. Thus it would be possible to have a different login cookie when looking at bugshaw.livejournal.com from live_gerbil.livejournal.com but things get messy when you wish to use you bugshaw identity somewhere else within livejounal.

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Even though I'm a cat person myself, I do find the experiences of your gerbils of interest. Should / may I list live_gerbil as a friend so as to be sure of receiving their posts? What do you recommend?

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Do feel free to Friend

live_gerbil for as long as its posts interest you! As you may notice from its profile page, it only tends to friend other rodents, or things made of cardboard. But it doesn't make any friends-locked posts, or bother reading other people's journals, so that shouldn't make any difference.

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