On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 11:22 +0000, Chirag Dewan wrote:
> Hi Oleg,
> 
> I understand that Oleg. But it’s a legacy application which cannot be 
> upgraded at the moment, even though it was my first option as well.
> 

I understand that, too. Apache HttpComponents is an all-volunteer,
community project and we simply have no resources to maintain more than
two concurrent branches (stable and dev).

Oleg

> Just in case,someone else has also faced a similar issue. It would be of 
> great help.
> 
> One thing I forget to add which might of use, my application is acting as a 
> proxy in here. It accepts requests from a client and proxies it to a server 
> thus manually getting all the headers and setting the headers manually in the 
> HttpClient.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Chirag
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oleg Kalnichevski [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 4:36 PM
> To: HttpClient User Discussion
> Subject: Re: Cookie spoofing issue using Commons Http Client 3.1
> 
> On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 07:01 +0000, Chirag Dewan wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am using Http Client 3.1 in one of my applications. I am using it for a 
> > post request.
> > 
> > My request flow is like this:
> > 
> > 1)      Client sends a login request.
> > 
> > 2)      Server sends a session id in Set-Cookie(Set-Cookie: sessionid=x)
> > 
> > 3)      Client sends request ,with post data and same session id cookie.( 
> > Cookie: sessionid=x)
> > 
> > 4)      Server responds to the request.
> > 
> > 5)      Client sends another request with 2 session id Cookies,1 from the 
> > previous requests and one other Session id Cookie.( Cookie: sessionid=x & 
> > Cookie: $Version=0; sessionid=y)
> > 
> > 6)      Server unauthorize the client.
> > 
> > It seems like Client is storing the session cookies,and sending 2 session 
> > cookies in the request and the server rejects the request based on invalid 
> > session id.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > Chirag
> > 
> 
> Chirag,
> 
> HC 3.1 has been at end of life for several years now. It is neither being 
> maintained or supported. It is very unlikely anyone would investigate this 
> issue. Please consider upgrading to HC 4.3
> 
> Oleg
> 
> 
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