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Re: Session Fixation

From: Gary Gwin <websec(at)cafesoft.com>
Date: Thu Mar 27 2003 - 15:24:30 EST

Thanks for posting, this is an excellent article.

One cavaet is with respect to binding the session ID to the browser's network address. There are some proxy servers that swap IP addresses between HTTP requests. In this case, binding to the exact IP address can cause a valid session to be orphaned.

Gary

St. Clair, James wrote:
> FYI - for those who have not seen it..

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Gary Gwin
http://www.cafesoft.com

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Received on Thu Mar 27 15:57:46 2003

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