Unless of course, you are listening into the network connection :-)

Jason Sheets wrote:
> 
> Not that I am aware of, it seems you would be better off using SSL, if
> you are concerned about someone hijacking the sessions you could
> generate your own session id (I generate random 80 character session ids
> instead of 32) and also limit the life of the session, you could write
> logic to change the session ID every n minutes which would make brute
> forcing the session id even harder.
> 
> Jason
> On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 11:34, Dennis Gearon wrote:
> > Is there anyway for a page to save information on a user's computer which is 
> > accessible via java or
> > javascript, but doesn't get sent with each HTML request the way a cookie is?
> >
> > I had this idea, patterned after kerberos:
> >
> > 1/ A user logs into a site via a secure link.
> > 2/ A hash salt is stored on their computer and an
> >    initial hash is generated for the user as a Password
> >    to their session key.
> > 3/ The user is redirected to the non secure part of the site
> >    and they have both the hash-pw plus session key in their document.
> > 4/ Each time they access a page on our site, a javascript fires
> >    which generates the next sequence in the hash-pw.
> > 5/ the server also generates the same new sequence and compares
> >    it. If the session key and the new password agree, then
> >    it is the user attached to the session.
> >
> > So, this salt needs to NOT be transmitted via the cookie so
> > that it does not appear 'in the clear', which  would invalidate
> > it's use.
> >
> > Please CC me when you reply to the list, I am on digest.
> >
> >
> >
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