Eric,

Are they accessing the site and then immediately emailing others the
link?  I would think if you tried to use a link where the user reference
was more than X minutes old, that particular user reference would have
expired.  In other words, you shouldn't be able to use that link
indefinitely.  How do you know if a particular user reference is valid? 
IMHO, if they don't have session cookies turned on, they aren't living
in this decade.  Passing user references like this is a maintenance
nightmare.

Mike

Eric Weidl wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone got any solutions for preventing session hijacking in Tango?
> 
> To handle the possibility of a user having cookies turned off, we've made
> sure <@USERREFERENCEARGUMENT> is added to every URL. That solution has
> worked well, until recently.
> 
> One of our customers copied a URL from the site and emailed it to a number
> of other people. Now, they are all sharing the same session and user
> variables.
> 
> We've always known this could happen but, only with a recent increase in
> traffic on the site have two users come in during the same timeframe (and
> thus stomped on each others variables).
> 
> We've got a couple ideas about how to address the problem, but I'm
> wondering what other approaches others have taken.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Eric
> 
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