Hi Sameera,

When passing url parameters, are you going to encrypt them and pass ?

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Udara Liyanage <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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