Well I suppose you could, but I wouldn't. If your worried about someone
stealing someone's sid when they are using a random one, then having
a fixed one would be even worse in this respect since they only have
to get it once instead of every time the session is re-initiated.

Adam Voigt
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On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 09:08, Simon Taylor wrote:
> While were on the subject, Is it possible/wise t register a person's session
> id in you useraccess db when they log in then always assign them the same
> id, then if the session has not expired the user will pick up vars stored
> there..
> Cheers
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Voigt [mailto:adam@;cryptocomm.com] 
> Sent: 24 October 2002 15:01
> To: Shaun
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [PHP] sessions
> 
> 
> You could, on the page where it initially creates there session, get there
> IP address and make that a session variable, then in one of your include
> files which is called on every page, check to see if the current users's IP
> match's the one of the $_SESSION[ip] variable, if it doesn't, just stop them
> dead with an exit; statement.
> 
> Course this won't help for people behind the same public IP, but it's a
> start. You could also verify against what the browser identify's itself as,
> etc.
> 
> Adam Voigt
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 08:32, Shaun wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > If i use sid in the url , is it dangerous - can hackers gain info on 
> > important variables storing username and passwords or is it save to 
> > use , if not what should i do.
> > 
> > shaun
> > 
> > 
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