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Re: defense against session hijacking


From: "Gary E. Miller" <gem () rellim com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:45:12 -0800 (PST)

Yo Thomas!

Some ISPs like AOL use ganged proxies/caches.  You may get the same session
from different proxies as they round robin.

Overly agressive web caches are a big problem for web apps.


RGDS
GARY
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On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Thomas M. Duffey wrote:

Isn't it
good defense for a programmer to store the IP address of the client
when the session is initiated, and then compare that address against
the client for each subsequent request, destroying the session if the
address changes?

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