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[nycphp-talk] sessions and application security

Mitch Pirtle mitchy at spacemonkeylabs.com
Tue Jan 27 13:04:32 EST 2004


charlie derr wrote:

> One thing that occurs to me (which certainly wasn't implied in the 
> original question,
> so I'm asking about this as a totally separate issue that was just 
> "jogged" into the
> forefront of my mind by this highly illuminative post) is the following:
> 
> If the entire transaction (both authentication and all content served) 
> was done via https,
> then it really wouldn't be a security problem to use this model you 
> scoff at (session data
> in the url), right?

Nope, unfortunately your session data will be in the URL, which goes 
over in cleartext (think about HTTP_REFERER and such).

-- Mitch



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