Re: Linking a cookie to an IP address is a very bad in 2015...

I see, in case the tcp-connection is lost/closed, does this also mean 
the https session is closed?
or in other words: it is no problem, closing a socket and opening another;
is this true during a http and/or https-session?

On 04.04.2015 12:18, Max Bruce wrote:
> The session ID is a cookie, so in the headers. And yes, because it 
> also checks that cookie, which is randomly generated. It just enforces 
> a user-agent server-side. It DID enforce an IP, but I removed this for 
> other reasons discussed earlier.
>
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 2:49 AM, Walter H. <Walter.H@mathemainzel.info 
> <mailto:Walter.H@mathemainzel.info>> wrote:
>
>     let me ask it different:  where is the Session ID, is it part of a
>     http-header, part of a html-header, a session-cookie, or is it
>     part of the URL itself that is requested?
>
>     the second: two ident configured hosts behind NAT do not differ
>     neither in the user agent nor in the IP address; they only differ
>     in the source TCP-port ...
>
>     On 03.04.2015 09:13, Max Bruce wrote:
>>     When you say transmitting from host to server, what do you mean?
>>     And yes, if I understand what your asking. It effectively
>>     compiled a random hash, and then enforced an IP & user agent. I
>>     have recently removed the IP enforecement though.
>>
>>     On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Walter H.
>>     <Walter.H@mathemainzel.info <mailto:Walter.H@mathemainzel.info>>
>>     wrote:
>>
>>         On 01.04.2015 21:48, Max Bruce wrote:
>>>         What about linking to several? I wrote a session system for
>>>         my Web Server that will only allow access to the original
>>>         Session ID if the IP & User-Agent has remained unchanged, in
>>>         order to protect against session hijacking. I've found it's
>>>         highly effective, unless you IP Spoof.
>>         what kind of mechanism do you use for transmitting the
>>         Session ID from host to server?
>>         does it prevent access from an ident configured but different
>>         host behind a NAT?
>>
>>
>
>

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