Re: [PHP-DEV] A couple of session issues From: teo <email protected>
Date: 08/27/01

Hi Zeev!
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote:

> At 13:40 27-08-01, Thies C. Arntzen wrote:
> >On 27 Aug 2001 01:33:46 +0300, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> > > The other issue is a suggestion I want to pitch - right now, if sessions
> > > are started after the headers are already sent, we'll get a nice
> > > headers-already-sent error. If we have trans_sid enabled (which we will
> > > most probably, from now on) - we can check whether the headers are already
> > > sent, and if they are, move to use trans_sid instead. Any comments?
> > >
> >i tend not to do that. trans-sid is a very different thing from cookies
> >(session id's are populated to foreign-sites via HTTP_REFERRER). i don't
> >think
> >we should default to it. developers should decide themself if they want
> >trans-sid
> >or not.
>
> You lost your caps too? :)
>
> I'm not sure what you meant in the HTTP_REFERRER issue - can you explain

I guess if I am in a page generated by
http://www.example.com/foo/bar.php?SID=<32x[0-f]>

and in this page, there is a link to www.foo.com/malicious.php

malicious.php will see in HTTP_REFERER what is your SID.

-- teodor 

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