[imp] Fwd: Chuck, what am I doing wrong? Why won't anyone respond to this question?

Eric Rostetter eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu
Wed Aug 11 14:14:17 PDT 2004


Quoting John Schneider <john.schneider at daumcommercial.com>:

> It appears that this would mean a user could potentially bookmark the site
> at an inappropriate time and depending on other circumstances, possibly gain
> unauthorized access to other mailboxes. Is this a correct assumption?

Yes, if you allow url-based sessions.

> If so,
> is their a way to prevent this? 

Don't allow url based sessions (use cookie-based sessions instead).

> (Perhaps javascript code to prevent
> bookmarking when a session is present in the URL?)

I'm not sure that would be appropriate...
 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> John Schneider

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Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin
 
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