Forms based security without cookies?

From: Stephen Barrett (stephen_barrett@nospam.aoncons.com)
Date: 07/24/02 

From: "Stephen Barrett" <stephen_barrett@nospam.aoncons.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 11:58:49 -0400

Is it possible to do forms based security without actually storing cookies
on the client machine? Forms based security looks like a perfect fit for
our application except we have hundreds of users who have cookies disabled
for one reason or another. We authenticate the users using information in a
database, but on machines that have cookies disabled, the site doesn't work.
We aren't using permanent cookies, just temporary ones with a 20minute
timeout.

Is there a way to do what forms based security is doing without the cookie?
If not, what would you recommend my next step be?

TIA

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