Ok that’s all I wanted to know.

Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Miles J [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: October-13-09 1:40 PM
To: CakePHP
Subject: Re: Session / Security


It only applies to the domain (name.com) not the whole shared vhosts grid
server.

On Oct 13, 8:42 am, "Dave Maharaj :: WidePixels.com"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey AD,
>
> Maybe (probably) I am lost on what I read.
>
> I have my domain on a non dedicated hosting platform. But the only 
> thing in my domain is my site.
> I thought what I read about "If the cookie's path is set to '/' (the 
> whole domain), then any website on the same domain (might be lots of 
> websites) _will_ get the cookie through HTTP headers and could 
> possibly hijack your session."
>
> Are thy referring to the server domain or my domain? My understanding 
> is shared hosting all points to specific ips for that host and then 
> they serve up the domain the user requested.
>
> So when someone requests my site they go to 123.123.12.12 for example 
> and they send back my site to the user. The cookie set to '/' is that 
> for mysite.com or 123.123.12.12.
>
> Maybe just lost n the trasnlation.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AD7six [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: October-13-09 11:24 AM
> To: CakePHP
> Subject: Re: Session / Security
>
> On 13 oct, 15:48, "Dave Maharaj :: WidePixels.com"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks for the links
>
> > I am on shared hosted server and found when reading
>
> > "If the cookie's path is set to '/' (the whole domain), then any 
> > website on the same domain (might be lots of websites) _will_ get 
> > the cookie through HTTP headers and could possibly hijack your session."
>
> > How can this be avoided in this a situation with shared hosting or not?
>
> in what way is using shared hosting relevant to that question, you 
> plan on/are sharing the same domain with servers/people you don't know?
>
> AD



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