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Re: Session security with cookies

Subject: Re: Session security with cookies
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 15:37:28 -0500
Thomas,

It's rather an axiom, at this point, that it's unsafe to trust a
client - an untrusted client (as discussed in this case) even more.

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Aaron

On Dec 5, 2007 2:27 AM, Thomas <tom@electric-sheep.org> wrote:

-Ensure the session times out in a reasonable amount of time

Timeouts have to be enforced by the server because cookie lifetime is not
mandatory and can be ignored or/and modified by the client.

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Tom <tom@electric-sheep.org>
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