[imp] URL-based session ID question

Jeff Tucker jeff at jltnet.com
Tue Dec 9 18:31:27 PST 2003


--On Tuesday, December 09, 2003 9:54 PM +0100 Daniel Eckl 
<daniel.eckl at gmx.de> wrote:

> If you think the problem is the administrator of the webserver, then no.
> not  even cookies.
>

Well, to be clear, I'm not talking about the administrator of the webserver 
that runs Imp. I'm talking about a situation where a user sees a link in 
their Imp email. When they click on that link, their referer will be the 
URL of the original email and that referer may end up in the external web 
server's logs. If someone with access to those logs can go to that link and 
get into the user's email, that's a problem.

I thought I had remembered that there was a way around this problem besides 
the IP checking. I may not be correct, though.

Jeff



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