Re: [PHP] Stopping stolen / spoofed / linked sessions

[Rasmus Lerdorf]

> > Ok, stop right there.  Sessions and authentication have nothing to do with
> > each other.  To create a secure authenticated site you should be using
> > HTTP-based authentication over SSL.  Sessions are simply for maintaining
> > state across http requests and have nothing to do with authentication.
> >
> > -Rasmus
>
> So setting a 'loggedin' session variable once a person has authenticated, and
> checking for that session variable each request before proceeding is not ok?

No, this is what I was trying to make sure people realized.  It is only ok
if this happens over SSL and there is no chance that someone else can
sniff the session id.

-Rasmus


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