help: How to track user session with fastcgi

Valery Kholodkov valery+mydns at grid.net.ru
Thu Oct 25 15:34:26 MSD 2007


> If you want some way to assign session id to user for security/external
> data storage identifier etc (the "sessions" in php's meaning) - you should
> use other means to generate them.
>
> Note: cookies generated by userid module shouldn't be used as security
> identifier, since malicious user can easily guess other user's cookie.

You could implement signed cookies like OpenACS or Django do:

http://openacs.org/doc/current/security-design.html

http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/3285

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Kind regards,
Valery Kholodkov







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