Forum: Community Center


Subject: Account mess up! Security breach and/or a warning.

TrekkieGrrrl opened this issue on Nov 20, 2004 ยท 29 posts


elizabyte posted Sat, 20 November 2004 at 6:24 AM

It's because the site uses persistent cookies for the session. If someone sends a link with their session ID in it, you log in and you're them. The solution is for the person to be very sure they don't have their session ID included in the link, but also if they log out, you won't be able to log in as them. Personally, I think this is really sloppy coding, and I know for sure that there are better ways to handle sessions and cookies, but I'll let other people argue about it. I mostly wanted to pass on the information about how to work around it. bonni

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