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I would suggest that this is particularly insecure, once they have logged in they can maintain their authenticated state with a session variable and therefore as long as the session timeout is set to. This would stop them having to repeatedly log in for a period of time, but still maintain a secure environment.
On 7/19/06, Damien Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>- see footer for list info -< Hi all, I have a shop system that sends out orders to a shipping company. The shipping company need to access a webpage that contains a confirmation note that contains all the purchaser's shipping and order details. This webpage will be accessed via a link from an email. They feel it will be too annoying (process-wise) to have a username/password for this page and so the obvious problem is how do you stop jo public (or jo hacker) from accessing someone else's personal info? I was thinking about using a hash of certain parts of the order (eg. purchaser's email address/order number/time of order) in the query string to authenticate the user. Any comments on how secure this is? Could a bot attack this and come across a valid query string to access this data? Thanks, Damien _______________________________________________ For details on ALL mailing lists and for joining or leaving lists, go to http://list.cfdeveloper.co.uk/mailman/listinfo -- CFDeveloper Sponsors:- >- Hosting provided by www.cfmxhosting.co.uk -< >- Forum provided by www.fusetalk.com -< >- DHTML Menus provided by www.APYCOM.com -< >- Lists hosted by www.Gradwell.com -< >- CFdeveloper is run by Russ Michaels, feel free to volunteer your help -<
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