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Re: defense against session hijacking


From: Bartlomiej Frackiewicz <bf () open-medium com>
Date: 18 Nov 2003 15:50:09 +0100

Hi,

Am Mon, 2003-11-17 um 22.16 schrieb Thomas M. Duffey:

method to protect against such an attack?  It's not perfect but should
significantly increase the difficulty of such an attack with little or
no annoying side effects for the legitimate user.  Would it be useful
to extend the session modules of the common Web scripting languages
(e.g. PHP) to enable an IP address check by default?

why you don't force session handling with cookies and set session
lifetime to 20mins (or so)?

Bart


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