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Re: session cookie: client side [message #175898 is a reply to message #175897]

Fri, 04 November 2011 14:21

sl@exabyte
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Registered: March 2011

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> The cookie does not identify the user - it is just the session id. What
> the server does with it is something else.
>
> In general, the session id does identify the computer from which the
> cookie is being sent because the session id is a rather long
> pseudo-random alphanumeric value. Yes it's possible for someone else
> to intercept and read the session id, but in general it's unlikely.
>
> The real question is - what is the problem you are trying to resolve?
> If the data are that sensitive, you should be using a secure protocol
> for everything. If the data aren't sensitive enough to require a
> secure protocol, why do you think the cookie is?

I think I am missing something. By the term 'secure protocol', ie SSL,
implies that HTTPS be used, rather than HTTP, isn't it ?

Sorry if it is a stupid question. Anyway I shall google for SSL and HTTPS.

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		session cookie: client side By: sl@exabyte on Thu, 03 November 2011 09:10
		Re: session cookie: client side By: Balazs Nadasdi on Thu, 03 November 2011 12:23
		Re: session cookie: client side By: sl@exabyte on Fri, 04 November 2011 06:14
		Re: session cookie: client side By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 04 November 2011 11:55
		Re: session cookie: client side By: sl@exabyte on Fri, 04 November 2011 14:21
		Re: session cookie: client side By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 04 November 2011 18:40
		Re: session cookie: client side By: Denis McMahon on Fri, 04 November 2011 15:53
		Re: session cookie: client side By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 04 November 2011 18:41
		Re: session cookie: client side By: Denis McMahon on Fri, 04 November 2011 15:52

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