Yes, the fact that AOL customers have their ip addresses change every couple
minutes is really annoying ... although, the first 3 parts of a 4-part ip
address remains the same even for AOL customers, so you can do a partial
ip-check for everyone.

On Feb 18, 2008 4:35 PM, Ben Bangert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Feb 17, 2008, at 3:59 AM, Leo wrote:
>
> > So, subj.
> > If someone steals the session id from cookies, will he be able to use
> > it?
>
> As with every other website out there.... yes. Only using IP-based
> restrictions will help, but there's still quite a few people behind
> proxies, though nowhere near as many since ppl appear to be bailing on
> AOL finally. I have it on my todo list to add IP restrictions to
> sessions, but I should mention that ppl can hijack Google sessions as
> easily as any others, and they do.
>
> Generally, if you care a lot about security, use separate 'secure-
> only' cookies on SSL for sections that are critical, and just a more
> basic, less secure cookie for the rest of the site (assuming there is
> a less secure section to the site).
>
> Cheers,
> Ben

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