Re: trans-sid warning?

From: Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 13:23:43 +0000
Subject: Re: trans-sid warning?
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So you wish to prevent your users from forging GET/POST values and are willing to rely on client-side cookies ? How is that any safer ? On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 09:18, Marko Karppinen wrote: Sascha: > If you want your site to be safe, enable > session.use_only_cookies and be done with it. No amount of > checking on the server side can otherwise prevent this class > of attacks. By the way, does session.use_only_cookies work with session.use_cookies=off? I'm using an alternative method (HTTP Basic Authentication) for the session id propagation, and would like to prevent users from setting the sid in get/post parameters. mk -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Xavier Spriet Developer/Administrator/Apache Build Next Dimension Inc. xavier@nextdimensioninc.com Tel: (519)-945-2032 Ext. 233

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