No contact is true but you may not have gone as far as the server is concerned. HTTP will need you to tell it again that you are still there but some systems maintain sessions, I think Cold Fusion is one such system and seems to do that via one cookie. Others seem to give that long seeminginly meaningless bit in the url, e.g sessionid=APDf454fsd339sdfd".

I don't understand it and maybe someone like Mark Clark can advise, but I'd have thought there were cases, not really in forum usage here, where servers can tie up a lot of memory to retain info. What does something like cfchat do?

Jon