Archive for July 25th, 2007

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HTTP Authentication Woes

July 25, 2007

HTTP Authentication may be RESTful, but it’s not very USEful. Read more

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Prevent Session Hijacking in Web Application

July 25, 2007

Trying to prevent session hijacking is a pain in the butt, especially since replay attacks by-pass pretty much any mechanism you can put into place (aside from using HTTPS). I’ve read suggestions about using things liked hashed (with a salt) User-Agent strings that get appended to the url and checked, in addition to the actual session id (coming from a cookie). Anyone have a particular idea that works well, or have any suggestions on things that really should be avoided? See  more at link

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The ICFP Programming Contest

July 25, 2007

The ICFP Programming Contest is a programming competition to be held the weekend of July 20 – 23, 2007. Link