[Gllug] IP address changes

[Alain Williams]

On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 01:05:59PM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:

> This behaviour seems quite common. Presumably some sort of load
> balancing on the proxy systems.

I feared that it might ...

> At the risk of teaching you how to suck eggs, why not use a cookie
> instead?

There is a cookie - that is how I link elements of the session together,
but a man-in-the-middle could steal the cookie & use it to pretend to be
the logged in user.

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Alain Williams
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