I’m wondering, are there any guidelines or best practices on when to use sessions and cookies?
What should and what should’nt be stored in them? Thanks!
I’m wondering, are there any guidelines or best practices on when to use sessions
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I’m wondering, are there any guidelines or best practices on when to use sessions and cookies?
What should and what should’nt be stored in them? Thanks!
These documents are a good read on security problems with session cookies, and how to get around them.
In summary, you keep a secret key on the server. With this key you can calculate a secure hash over the secret key, a time stamp, and any data you want in the cookie. You include the secure hash, the time stamp and the data in the cookie.
When you receive a request you can validate that you get the signature expected. So nobody have tampered with the cookie contents.