You are correct. If you want to prevent session hijacking you need to
force cookies over https.

You can do this in your program

   session._secure=True

But it is up to you to setup https.

On Jun 16, 5:43 am, blackthorne <[email protected]> wrote:
> There may be a security problem for all of you using Auth. Even if the
> login process is done threw SSL the session should be also kept over
> SSL or else you may be vulnerable to session hijacking 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_hijacking) attacks.
>
> My question is, is there a control to make auth methods and logged in
> sessions to be kept over https and https only leaving at the same
> time, public data to be transmitted as clear data?
>
> Thank you,
> Best regards

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