Greetings:

One of my requirements is single-sign-on, whereby the user logs in only 
once for all services. The username and password are captured at login and 
stored in session variables for this purpose. Now some of the services 
require the password for authentication, so I pull this from the seesion.
So far so good. But in my testing, usually after some Exception has 
occurred, I have occasionally seen the password appear in the URL even 
though I never explicitly pass it this way, and never would, of course.

Since unanticipated exceptions do occur, even in production software, this 
is a concern and I'd like to know why this is happening. I suspect it has 
something to do with Turbine's capability to automatically stick cookies 
into the URL when the browser disables them, which I have not yet studied. 
Is there a way to "protect" certain session values from ever being handled 
this way? If not, how do others handle the transfer of sensitive 
information like this, which must never be exposed, even accidentally?

Thanks,
Bruce
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