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Questions tagged [anonymous-users]

Questions involving this tag should cover topics related to identifying a user for the purpose access control in relation to a product or service that may span multiple sessions over an indefinite period of time. Such a user could be either an individual person or some implementation of a system, such as an API client.

An anonymous user may be:

  • accessing an installed or web-based application as part of a trial
  • accessing an installed or web-based application for the purposes of secrecy
  • associated with a usage quota for abuse prevention
  • granted temporary/guest access to edit or view a resource

Questions related to identifying a user for the purpose of advertising or analytics are considered off-topic for this tag. Depending on the context, questions regarding strategies to deanonymize a user may also be considered off-topic (such as deanonymizing a Sign in with Apple user).

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Web-based anonymous access is often associated with methods of storing user identifiers and tokens such as:

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ASP.NET membership get UserId of anonymous user

I have an existing project that i'm working on that uses .net membership. We want to expand the project to allow anonymous users but we seem to have hit a snag as we use the UserId of the aspnet_Users table as a foreign key in many of our database…
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Best practice for managing anonymous users' data

I'm looking for any hints on recommended, or simply tried and tested, ways of associating data with an anonymous user in a web application. I want the data to be available to users across multiple sessions, so therefore store it in the…
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ASP .NET anonymous users not getting stored in database

I'm trying to setup anonymous users in MVC. For some reason it wont store the users in the database. I have added the following in the web.config It successfully creates the .ASPXANONYMOUS cookie when i…
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ASP.NET Identity 2 and Anonymous Users

In our developing e-commerce solution we are using AspNet Identity 2.2.1 and it is required that any guest (anonymous) users should complete checkout without prior registration to the website. In order to fullfill this requirement have written an…
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Parse + Swift + Anonymous

In an effort to create the easiest user experience possible, I am on a mission to accept a user as an anonymous user using Parse + Swift. I had thought to use the Anonymous user functions in Parse to accomplish that. As a result, I created the…
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How do you get asp.net anonymous authentication token for profile support?

So I have an asp.net Web Application (Not Web Site) that I am trying to support profiles for anonymous users. I have a form and I want anonymous users to be able to enter their name and email only once, and have that information automatically…
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drupal 7 - can't restore anonymous user

I noticed than my anonymous user was removed by something when i noticed $_SESSION was crashed for anonymous user After gogling like a panther i take a look in my users sqltable and effectively the uid = 0 was not here. So i apply the solve given by…
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allowing anonymous user to save contents of a form in sharepoint doc library

I have moss 2007 configured for anonymous access. I also have a public accessible form created in infopath, which can be opened in a webpage and filled and submitted. However, an anonymous user is unable to submit the form after filling it. Submit…
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Considerations for anonymous users

So, the Web application I'm working on allows input from anonymous users (and their participation in the flagging system). As for the spamming issue, would it be enough to use the honeypot method or is an image CAPTCHA (e.g. reCAPTCHA) necessary in…
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In Rails 3 app, how do I allow anonymous users to access a controller action only once?

For example, suppose I had a blog and anybody could read the articles, read the comments, and flag any comment as inappropriate. How do I prevent non-signed-in users from clicking the "Flag Comment" link more than once? The "Flag Comment" link…
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django request.user always returns AnonymousUser despite a token being sent with the request

I have a class that behaves differently depending on if the user is authenticated or not: class SomeClass(APIView): authentication_classes = () permission_classes = () def get(self, request): if request.user.is_authenticated: …
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Repeatable way to generate an anonymous identifier?

I've been working on a web application that needs to provide a way to create an anonymous identifier that can be used to identify one or more rows in a database that refer to a person who has called into a switchboard (let's call them a "client")…
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Flask-login - AttributeError: 'AnonymousUserMixin' object has no attribute '_sa_instance_state'

I'm setting up a flask application to run an anonymous online experiment. How can I track anonymous participants via the the current_user object of the Login-manager? When a user is anonymous the current_user is set to AnonymousUserMixin. I tried to…
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Azure B2C AD regarding anonymous users

I have a quick Question regarding Azure B2C AD. Lets say I've decided to use Azure B2C AD As the identity Provider for a Web shop page. Having the B2C AD for managing registered members/consumers/customers is all fine and dandy but, what about when…
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Firebase push web notifications for anonymous users

Is it possible to push web notification in Firebase for anonymous users with using just the UID because there will be no tokens for anonymous authentication.
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