Re: sessions and cookies
| From: | \[Inf\] F!RE-WALL | Date: | Sat, 31 Mar 2001 21:33:26 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: sessions and cookies | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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I don't recommend putting the Session ID in the URL. Subscibed members could
pass URL's to eachother and that way they could have eachother's settings.
""David Hynes"" <david@fed202.com> wrote in message
news:NEBBKPMCELLJJBPCHMGPCEIECBAA.david@fed202.com...
> I am using sessions to password protect a section of a website.
>
> I am storing the session ID in a cookie but just in case cookies are not
> enabled, I am also passing the session ID in the query string to each page
> in the protected directory.
>
> Please can someone tell me if this could cause any problems, especially if
> the user if tries to access a URL from their history bar in the browser
with
> an old session ID.
>
> i think what I'm trying to ask is , if the script receives a session ID
from
> a query string and cookie, which does it use ?
>
> Thanks,
> David.
>
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