Is there any problem with security if I store userid,profileId,username and other such kind information in cookie.
Is there any problem with security if I store userid,profileId,username and other such kind
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Is there any problem with security if I store userid,profileId,username and other such kind information in cookie.
Yes there will be an enormous security problem doing this. If you don’t encrypt the cookie anyone could replace the username you’ve stored with say for example Administrator (usually id=1) and send a request to the web server.