[Zope-Coders] Re: [Zope-Checkins] CVS: Zope/lib/python/Products/Sessions/stresstests
- stresstestMultiThread.py:1.5
Shane Hathaway
shane@zope.com
Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:42:52 -0400
Florent Guillaume wrote:
> Chris McDonough <chrism@zope.com> wrote:
>
>>Added the capability for browser ids to be encoded in URLs.
> (snip)
>
> This is a quite useful feature, but at the same time a very dangerous
> one security-wise.
Before Zope, I once implemented sessions using URLs. Over time, I
discovered many more problems than I expected. I could list them, but
instead I'll just say that cookie-based sessions are really the only One
True Way. :-)
Shane