full-disclosure - Referers Are Evil

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Date: Sun Aug  7 21:42:02 2005
From: mailinglists at vanscherpenseel.nl (Vincent van Scherpenseel)
Subject: Referers Are Evil

On Sunday 07 August 2005 20:27, Bipin Gautam wrote:

> BUT, i remember testing it on PHPBB back then, i don't think you can
> take over the session on that! (i may be wrong). YAP, but there are
> LOTS of sites & applications out there from which you can easily steal
> away sessions.

Well, if the client's IP address used for a given session is stored in a 
session variable  it's not possible to steal an active session from another 
IP address. That's probably their way of working around this problem.

 - Vincent van Scherpenseel