Re: defense against session hijacking

[Ron DuFresne <dufresne () winternet com>]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Gary E. Miller wrote:

> Yo Thomas!
>
> Some ISPs like AOL use ganged proxies/caches.  You may get the same session
> from different proxies as they round robin.
>
> Overly agressive web caches are a big problem for web apps.

not to mention that IP's can be spoofed.

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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