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[nycphp-talk] Session basics

Chris Shiflett shiflett at php.net
Fri Aug 19 14:58:44 EDT 2005


Aaron Fischer wrote:
> If the session has expired such as in browser close or timeout, the
> bookmarked page won't be a liability as the session id in the URL won't
> find a matching session id on the server.

The server doesn't know when the browser is closed, so that part's not 
right. It is true that a session timeout (on the server side) offers 
some protection against this type of accidental hijacking.

Hope that helps.

Chris

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