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A session cookie (also known as an in-memory cookie, transient cookie or non-persistent cookie) exists only in temporary memory while the user navigates a website. [22] Session cookies expire or are deleted when the user closes the web browser. [23] Session cookies are identified by the browser by the absence of an expiration date assigned to them.
In computer science and networking in particular, a session is a time-delimited two-way link, a practical (relatively high) layer in the TCP/IP protocol enabling interactive expression and information exchange between two or more communication devices or ends – be they computers, automated systems, or live active users (see login session).
Session storage is both per-origin and per-instance (per-window or per-tab) and is limited to the lifetime of the instance. Session storage is intended to allow separate instances of the same web app to run in different windows without interfering with each other, a use case that's not well supported by cookies.
They define how information sent/received through the connection are encoded (as in Content-Encoding), the session verification and identification of the client (as in browser cookies, IP address, user-agent) or their anonymity thereof (VPN or proxy masking, user-agent spoofing), how the server should handle data (as in Do-Not-Track), the age ...
Suhosin also reduces the "attackable surface" that PHP adds to a Web Server through function whitelists, resource limits, transparent session and cookie encryption, binary content filter, logging and various other protections. [2] This reduces the risk of deploying previously deemed unsafe PHP programs and protects against known and unknown ...
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A visit to evil.example.com sets a session cookie with the domain .example.com on Alice's browser; When Alice visits www.example.com this cookie will be sent with the request and Alice will have the session specified by Mallory's cookie. If Alice now logs on, Mallory can use her account.
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