About Session Cookies and Web Clients

The Application Object Manager in the Siebel Server communicates with the Siebel Web Client through the Web server using TCP/IP protocol. An independent session is established to serve incoming connection requests from each client. Siebel Business Applications use session cookies to track the session state. These session cookies persist only within the browser session and are deleted when the browser exits or the user logs off. A session cookie attaches requests and logoff operations to the user session that started at the login page.

Instead of storing the session ID in clear text in the client’s browser, Siebel Business Applications create an encrypted session ID and attach an encryption key index to the encrypted session ID. In Siebel Remote, the encryption algorithm and key exchange are the same as for session-based components.