[horde] Can't start a second horde session?

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Thu Aug 3 23:50:33 PDT 2006


Zitat von Kevin Konowalec <kevin at ualberta.net>:

> Using Horde 3.1.2.  Here's the scenario:  You open up a browser   
> window and go to https://www.myserver.com/.  Imp has been set as the  
>  initial Horde application and the webroots for horde and imp are  
> set  to '/horde/ and ' ' respectively in horde/config/registry.php.   
> You  get to the login page and can login as usual.  You then open a   
> second browser window and go to the same URL.  Only this time the   
> URL immediately redirects to   
> https://www.myserver.com/mailbox.php?page=1.  Interestingly enough   
> it seems to not be in the same frameset as the sidebar is not on the  
>  page with the second instance at all.

Yes, of course, because you're accessing IMP if you go to  
https://www.myserver.com/, not Horde.

> This is unexpected behavior as the older version I had been running   
> would bring you back to the login page and let you start another   
> session (perhaps using a different ID... some of our users are   
> responsible for several different email accounts and like each one   
> in a different browser window).  Ultimately it doesn't make a lot of  
>  sense to be able to hijack a session just by opening another   
> instance of the browser.

You are using cookies now which obviously didn't work in your old  
setup. No idea what this has to do with session hijacking though.

Jan.

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