Re: [PHP] Best way to transfer session IDs

2003-07-26 Thread Matthew A. Blasinski
Chris Shiflett wrote: --- Matthew A. Blasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I'm thinking a plausible session id could be made by hashing their identification (to make it useful to the rightful owner only) with a private key (to make it hard to get and guess). I think the identification could be

Re: [PHP] Best way to transfer session IDs

2003-07-25 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- Matthew A. Blasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question - what is the best way to know the session id between pages? Posting it in the URL and using $_GET[PHPSESSID] is one solution, but this seems like a hassle and is also open to attack if someone could guess a valid session ID. As

Re: [PHP] Best way to transfer session IDs

2003-07-25 Thread Matthew A. Blasinski
Thanks for the response Chris, that's just the type of thing I was looking for! So, I'm thinking a plausible session id could be made by hashing their identification (to make it useful to the rightful owner only) with a private key (to make it hard to get and guess). I think the

Re: [PHP] Best way to transfer session IDs

2003-07-25 Thread John W. Holmes
Matthew A. Blasinski wrote: I'm trying to track session data and merge several related services through a common server-side session (using Apache). One condition is that it won't use cookies to store the user data OR the session ID. Another is that the services we're merging use different

Re: [PHP] Best way to transfer session IDs

2003-07-25 Thread Curt Zirzow
* Thus wrote Matthew A. Blasinski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Thanks for the response Chris, that's just the type of thing I was looking for! So, I'm thinking a plausible session id could be made by hashing their identification (to make it useful to the rightful owner only) with a private key

Re: [PHP] Best way to transfer session IDs

2003-07-25 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- Matthew A. Blasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I'm thinking a plausible session id could be made by hashing their identification (to make it useful to the rightful owner only) with a private key (to make it hard to get and guess). I think the identification could be their IP, user