Re: [nyphp-talk] Cookie

2009-03-19 Thread Michele Waldman
quot;access denied". But thanks anyway. Michele -Original Message- From: talk-boun...@lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-boun...@lists.nyphp.org] On Behalf Of Paul A Houle Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:30 AM To: NYPHP Talk Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] Cookie David Mintz wrote: > > Mor

Re: [nyphp-talk] Cookie

2009-03-19 Thread Paul A Houle
David Mintz wrote: Moreover, are you sure you want to rely on cookies for testing whether a user is authenticated? Uh, don't Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and most of the other top-1000 sites use cookies to tell if users are authenticated? When's the last time you logged onto a public-faci

Re: [nyphp-talk] Cookie

2009-03-19 Thread Michele Waldman
wound up using a session variable instead, but was wondering what I had done wrong. Michele _ From: talk-boun...@lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-boun...@lists.nyphp.org] On Behalf Of David Mintz Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:48 AM To: NYPHP Talk Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] Cookie

Re: [nyphp-talk] Cookie

2009-03-19 Thread Michele Waldman
Ok. Thanks. I thought if I specified $path = it would resolve. Michele -Original Message- From: talk-boun...@lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-boun...@lists.nyphp.org] On Behalf Of Scott Mattocks Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:18 AM To: NYPHP Talk Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] Cookie Michele

Re: [nyphp-talk] Cookie

2009-03-19 Thread David Mintz
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Scott Mattocks wrote: > Michele Waldman wrote: > >> I was defined in the subdirectory, but not the root directory. >> >> So, I don't think it was an expiration problem. >> > > It isn't that the cookie is expired already. It is that you are setting the > path as th

Re: [nyphp-talk] Cookie

2009-03-19 Thread Scott Mattocks
Michele Waldman wrote: I was defined in the subdirectory, but not the root directory. So, I don't think it was an expiration problem. It isn't that the cookie is expired already. It is that you are setting the path as the expiration. You can't just leave it out and hope that the function fig

Re: [nyphp-talk] Cookie

2009-03-19 Thread Michele Waldman
NYPHP Talk Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] Cookie Michele Waldman wrote: >>From http://domain/accout/login.php, if did setcookie('logged_in", "1", > $path="/");, like the documentation said too. > > Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here? You mean ot

Re: [nyphp-talk] Cookie

2009-03-19 Thread Scott Mattocks
Michele Waldman wrote: From http://domain/accout/login.php, if did setcookie('logged_in", "1", $path="/");, like the documentation said too. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here? You mean other than relying on that cookie to tell you if the user is logged in? Yeah, you are missing the

[nyphp-talk] Cookie

2009-03-19 Thread Michele Waldman
I tried to set cookie from a subdirectory for the whole domain, but it didn't work. >From http://domain/accout/login.php, if did setcookie('logged_in", "1", $path="/");, like the documentation said too. But it still set it for the entire domain. I also tried: setcookie('logged_in", "1", $p

Re: [nyphp-talk] cookie authenticators

2009-02-02 Thread Paul A Houle
Michael B Allen wrote: Otherwise, you wouldn't need to use cookies at all - you could just store the authenticator in the HTTP session on the server. From a security perspective, cookies can be sniffed just like session ids so there's not a great benefit there. But the paper also has a section t

[nyphp-talk] cookie authenticators

2009-02-02 Thread Michael B Allen
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Paul A Houle wrote: > Note that sites like yahoo, google, amazon, twitter, ebay, and digg > don't use Basic Auth, Digest Auth or any of the Auth systems built into the > http standard. They use the unofficial standard that's described in the > following pap