Re: How to avoid session fixation?

2008-02-08 Thread Christoph Lenggenhager
David, Christopher Thank you for sharing your thoughts. It seems to me that there is no standard solution to this problem, but you agree with me that the problem exists. As I mentioned before, I came up with a solution that looks promising. Here's a rough description, I'd welcome your

How to avoid session fixation?

2008-02-06 Thread Christoph Lenggenhager
Dear all, I'm currently trying to find a way to fight Session Fixation (http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Session_Fixation) in tomcat when using the built -in mechanisms to authenticate users of a servlet. In the environment in question, an own realm implementation is in place and we use the