Hi,

Either was is not 100% secure uncless you use HTTPS. However disadvantages
of passing via url parameter is there is a posibility that url parameters
may be printed in logs which is insecure.

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Sameera Jayaratna <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm working on Password recovery for ES, following [1].
>
> According to [1], in the sequence of calls to the 
> *UserInformationRecoveryService,
> *the key generated in one call needs to be passed to the next call for
> verification. These calls occur in different views, so we need to pass the
> keys from one view to the next.
>
> What is the best way to do this?
>
>
>    - passing as url parameters?
>    - storing them in the session?
>
> Is there any security concerns related to either approach?
> Or is there a better way to do this?
>
> Any thoughts on this would be helpful.
>
> Thank you,
> Sameera
>
> [1] https://docs.wso2.com/display/IS500/Recover+with+Secret+Questions
>
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