On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:31:03 +0100, Edi Weitz edi@agharta.de wrote:
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:22:22 +0000 (UTC), Sohail Somani sohail@taggedtype.net wrote:
Hypothetically speaking, if I wanted to prevent hijacking by guessing, I could just redefine hunchentoot:get-next-session-id.
Does this sound correct?
Yes, I think so.
Er, no, actually. I've seen this mentioned in your blog
http://uint32t.blogspot.com/2007/12/abusing-hunchentoots-dispatch-mechanism....
and thought about it again. So, tell me, if you happen to know for sure that my session ID is 42 and if you also know my user agent string and my IP address, how would you construct a cookie to hijack my session?
Edi.