Re: IP-address spoofing a concern?

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On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 18:35 +0000, Nick Kew wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:02:58 -0500
> Brian Mearns <mearns.b@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > . So basically what I'm coming
> > to is that session's aren't completely insecure unless over HTTPS?
> 
> Well, you can send a session token.
> 
> With HTTP Digest Authentication, it's secure.

The session token may be secure, but that's useless without integrity
protection of request bodies.  If you want real security, use HTTPS.

-- 
Matt


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