[Rails-core] Response to “Logout is broken by default in Ruby on Rails web applications”?

2013-10-14 Thread Matias Korhonen
Hi, Has there been any sort of “official” response to G.S. McNamara's recent blog post “Logout is broken by default in Ruby on Rails web applicationshttp://maverickblogging.com/logout-is-broken-by-default-ruby-on-rails-web-applications/” (also see the discussion on Hacker

Re: [Rails-core] Response to “Logout is broken by default in Ruby on Rails web applications”?

2013-10-14 Thread Steve Klabnik
(I believe) it already is: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html#session-fixation -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby on Rails: Core group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: [Rails-core] Response to “Logout is broken by default in Ruby on Rails web applications”?

2013-10-14 Thread Matt Jones
On Oct 14, 2013, at 11:28 AM, Steve Klabnik wrote: (I believe) it already is: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html#session-fixation The new article is about a different scenario - namely that the CookieStore doesn't include any kind of invalidation mechanism by default. Short

Re: [Rails-core] Response to “Logout is broken by default in Ruby on Rails web applications”?

2013-10-14 Thread Sergio Campamá
Isn't this a common problem with every other framework that uses cookies for sessions? I find it a bit hard on Rails given that point. I remember doing some successful tests on Facebook (PHP) with FireSheep, and I believe (please tell me if I'm wrong) that it gets fixed by using SSL to prevent

Re: [Rails-core] Response to “Logout is broken by default in Ruby on Rails web applications”?

2013-10-14 Thread Michael Koziarski
On 14/10/2013, at 11:13 PM, Matias Korhonen korhonen.m...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Has there been any sort of “official” response to G.S. McNamara's recent blog post “Logout is broken by default in Ruby on Rails web applications” (also see the discussion on Hacker News)? The TL;DR is: