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I was thinking about doing that, but I was hoping to avoid superfluous 
database queries. It is my fallback method, but i _really_ want to use 
sessions, but limit them to server-side modification.


On Wednesday 27 November 2002 12:51 pm, Van Andel, Robert wrote:
> What I do on my pages is perhaps a convoluted way of doing it but it works.
>  I set a username and password session variables. Every time the page loads
> the script verifies the username and password are correct.  If not, they
> don't get to see the rest.  This, in my mind, pervents someone from
> supplying a key variable like $_session['logged_in'].  This way they have
> to know the username and password.
>
> Robbert van Andel
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Evan Nemerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 12:39 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] ignoring client supplied session data
>
>
> I'm setting up a site using sessions right now, and I was just wondering if
> there is a way to ignore anything from the client side- I want them to POST
> a username and password, from there all data should be handled on the
> server.
>
> I'm already using the query string to avoid cookies, but I want to make
> sure that if the user _does_ have cookies on, any change in the data will
> be ignored by the server. Any suggestions?
>
> Basically, I think it would be a lot more efficient for me to set a
> _SESSION['logged_in'] variable once than query the database for every page,
> but I don't know if it would be secure or not- I don't want someone setting
> the logged_in variable in their cookie, then getting full access to the
> site...
>
>
> Thanks,
> Evan

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