RE: Tomcat IP and Session ID's

2006-02-24 Thread Tim Lucia
@tomcat.apache.org Subject: RE: Tomcat IP and Session ID's Thank you. I was wondering, over and above encrypting the communications channel how does HTTPS help to prevent session ID hijacking? Regards Paul Roberts. >From: "Peter Crowther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-T

RE: Tomcat IP and Session ID's

2006-02-24 Thread Peter Crowther
> From: Paul Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I was wondering, over and above encrypting the communications > channel how does HTTPS help to prevent session ID hijacking? To my knowledge, it doesn't (better heads than me may wish to contradict me here). But keeping a randomly-generated sessi

RE: Tomcat IP and Session ID's

2006-02-24 Thread Paul Roberts
Thank you. I was wondering, over and above encrypting the communications channel how does HTTPS help to prevent session ID hijacking? Regards Paul Roberts. From: "Peter Crowther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Tomcat Users List" To: "Tomcat Users List"

RE: Tomcat IP and Session ID's

2006-02-24 Thread Peter Crowther
> From: Paul Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have a question regarding IP address and session ID's. > > If a user on IP Address 1 connects to the Tomcat server and is given > session ID A, what happens if that session ID is hijacked by > someone on > IP address 2 and then used for a furthe

Re: Tomcat IP and Session ID's

2006-02-24 Thread Danny Lee
Well In my situation it just works, if you copy something like http://localhost:8080/MyApp/welcome.do;jsessionid=64B0E7454BB37E8ECE50B8B0323735CD in another browser - nothing happens ;) I don't know why, but I like it. I use cookies for session management, couse I need them in some other plac

Tomcat IP and Session ID's

2006-02-24 Thread Paul Roberts
I have a question regarding IP address and session ID's. If a user on IP Address 1 connects to the Tomcat server and is given session ID A, what happens if that session ID is hijacked by someone on IP address 2 and then used for a further request. How would the different version of Tomcat react t