note 23231 deleted from function.session-start by dams

From: Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 16:49:56 +0000
Subject: note 23231 deleted from function.session-start by dams
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I had problems preventing guestbook-spams while inside a session. The problem is, if you directly access the page via a hacker-programm and are not sending cookies or the session_name and the id, php creates everytime a new session. This session is initialized as it should be (i have one script creating all the necessary vars for the session). It's also not possible to store the IP-address into the database, because of the proxy-cluster-problem. This script prevents adding entrys to the forums or guestbook, if the session is not initialized in the main script (It's nothing special, but maybe you save a hour for other work you got to do...). <?php // This little script tests, if the session id is the same // as after session_start: // add this lines into your code, which stores userentrys into database $savedsession=session_id(); // some other code include "inc/session.inc.php"; // my session initializer, calls session_start() and session_register() // check, if new session is created if ($savedsession!=sessionid) { // prevent adding to guestbook, forum etc } else { // here you know, that the user has a valid session, // but you have to check, if the entry was already entered into the database and don't allow multiple entrys within a short time ) } ?> Causch

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