Understood, but you need to then change the default way witango works, and be very careful where you include the references. If you haven't already done so, check the default witango header, it puts the priority on the cookie, and not the userref, you are probably going to want to alter that behavior, and I would write a custom header, that would help you to stop session hijacking by doing some verification/validation on the useref arguments.
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On Jun 8, 2006, at 11:25 AM, Dale Graham wrote: Yes but some of us (I work for Federal Gov't) are not actually *allowed* to use cookies.... so when you have those constraints, and need to make sure session variables are saved.... you're kind of stuck.On Jun 8, 2006, at 2:08 PM, Robert Garcia wrote: Yes, but that doesn't solve any of the issues that arise from using it in a url, you have the same issues, when you don't just use the cookie methods.
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Robert Garcia President - BigHead Technology VP Application Development - eventpix.com 13653 West Park Dr Magalia, Ca 95954 ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040
On Jun 8, 2006, at 4:48 AM, Dale Graham wrote: You can also pass UserReferenceArgument as a hidden argument, which drops it out of the URL...
I believe it must be in this form <input type="hidden" name="_userReference" value="<@UserReferenceArgument>">
If I am in error on the format, someone on the list more knowledgeable can correct this ..... On Jun 7, 2006, at 12:09 PM, GEzra wrote: Folks I'm dealing with do not like cookies, candies or anything sweet - spent a lot of time making sure that I was passing userref in the url to avoid cookies. I'm just gonna see if my isp can do something about their router, unless my xserve is doing this NAT, even though its turned off.
Thanks for your help on this Dave, William & Robert!
Ezra
On 2-Jun-06, at 4:23 AM, Robert Garcia wrote:
Yes, they are in the URI, you can see in the log:
_function=validate_user&_UserReference=58FA321F03B02D3E447F5B62
Remove userreference from URI, and only use cookies.
-- Robert Garcia President - BigHead Technology VP Application Development - eventpix.com 13653 West Park Dr Magalia, Ca 95954 ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040
On Jun 1, 2006, at 8:35 PM, William M Conlon wrote:
Are the userref's in the URI? That would allow them to be shared.
Look in the archive on session hijacking.
On Jun 1, 2006, at 7:37 PM, GEzra wrote:
Hello all!
I looked at my witango log today and it seems like the same userreference was assigned to two different users, seconds apart while both were accessing diff. apps.
What's so odd is that the server address of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is being logged as the clients ip. How can this be?
01/06/2006 14:27:19 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25272320 1 1 [Application File] START /apps/login.taf WitangoServer _function=validate_user&_UserReference=58FA321F03B02D3E447F5B62 01/06/2006 14:27:44 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25310208 1 0 [Application File] START /apps/login.taf WitangoServer _function=validate_user&_UserReference=58FA321F03B02D3E447F5B62
Any ideas?
thanks, Ezra ________________________________________________________________________
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