Proxy - Cookie - PhP - .htaccess Questions

["morning_wood" <se_cur_ity () hotmail com>]

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 If someone could help me with the implications of this scenario :

you = user-ip
proxy = proxy ip
remhost = host-ip


Open browser via proxy to <hostip> with member forum php/BB type with login
/ pass.
( if im correct this sets a cookie to "maintain state"  for session auth)
do stuff.
Change or turn off proxy in browser.
do more stuff.

Q? Are you still authorized?
C? its looks so
A? dunno really, this is why I wrote this. help-me?


My Opinion:
 I think many or most of these php/BB style forums use the <user-ip> as part
of the cookie making ( baking? yum ) authentication and persistant state
process. It just seems odd that thers no obvious change in the auth, but yet
technically the "you' have gone from <proxy-ip> to <user-ip>. This would
seem to enable a "session sharing" scenario if you could corordinate a
common proxy and a cookie sharing routine to bypass a many restriction...
no? Help me figure this out, it is just hypothetical ( hence the
conjecture ). What about .htaccess? does this violate that protection as
well??? I say ...YES. Comments and FACTUAL, LOGICAL theory are asked upon
this as it may ( could ) change the whole aspect of "location" or "absolute"
auth via a IP protocol. ( or I will be highly embarased as to my high level
ignarami )

Donnie Werner
morning_wood () exploitlabs com
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