[jira] Commented: (SHIRO-83) Make sessionId cookie optional

["Kalle Korhonen (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Kalle Korhonen commented on SHIRO-83:
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This is a container feature - for example in Tomcat you can specify cookies=false in the context.xml (see http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html). Spec says url rewriting is a fallback if client doesn't allow cookies but I'm not sure we should deliberately go deleting a cookie set by the container. I'd close as "won't fix" unless somebody provides better justification.

> Make sessionId cookie optional
> ------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SHIRO-83
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SHIRO-83
>             Project: Shiro
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Web
>    Affects Versions: 1.0.0
>            Reporter: Les Hazlewood
>             Fix For: 1.0.0
>
>
> In rich-client applications (Ajax, Flex, etc), it is more secure to have the rich-client framework explicitly send the session ID back to the server with every request in its native/encrypted format, rather than via cookies, which are more susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks.  GWT works this way as well.
> Make it a configuration possibility to disable cookies entirely, supporting this rich-client-over-http scenario.

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