Re: Cookie-less session tracking - whats are the downsides

2008-04-23 Thread Peter Stavrinides
This topic comes up on the list very frequently, you ask ten developers this question you may even get eleven opinions. Your answer is it depends on your use case and security requirements (for example: I may not care, in a shopping cart application, if I write a product id in the URL, but I

Re: Cookie-less session tracking - whats are the downsides

2008-04-17 Thread David Smith
The man in the middle attack you describe below is one possible issue. However it's easy to capture cookies and provide those in an attack. An effective hacker is going to be able to look exactly like the client on an unencrypted connection. URL encoded sessonIds can cause headaches if you

Re: Cookie-less session tracking - whats are the downsides

2008-04-17 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Farhan, mfs wrote: | I would want to know the downsides to using cookie-less sessions ? I want to | give my client the freedom to disable cookies on the browser if he chooses | to, but i would want to know the implications to that ?

Re: Cookie-less session tracking - whats are the downsides

2008-04-17 Thread Robert Koberg
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 09:38 -0400, Christopher Schultz wrote: The only runtime bottleneck is the time required to add ;jsessionid=123456789 to your outgoing URLs, which is to say pretty much nothing. The engineering bottleneck is that you have to run all your URLs through

Re: Cookie-less session tracking - whats are the downsides

2008-04-17 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert, Robert Koberg wrote: | On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 09:38 -0400, Christopher Schultz wrote: | The only runtime bottleneck is the time required to add | ;jsessionid=123456789 to your outgoing URLs, which is to say pretty | much nothing. The

Cookie-less session tracking - whats are the downsides

2008-04-16 Thread mfs
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