Re: how to not show login info in the url ...what am I looking for?

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On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:03 AM, tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 9:52 PM +0000 12/9/08, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
>>
>>  >
>>>
>>>  Thanks guys and gals!
>>
>> You shouldn't be passing info like that over the URL; use sessions
>> instead.
>>
>> I saw a shopping cart system once that passed the price of items over
>> the URL, and when I found out and alerted them, we won the contract for
>> a rebuild and then got accused of hacking by their previous web guys
>> (who incidentally built the system!)
>>
>> Ash
>
> Ash:
>
> Even if you did hack the site, all that means is that site was hack-able and
> thus should have been fixed anyway.
>
> In my mind, hacking a site (without doing damage) is a good introduction to
> a client.
>
> Cheers,
>
> tedd
>
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>

*Ahem*....You mean 'cracking'? :-P

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