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| author | Vijay Dev <vijaydev.cse@gmail.com> | 2011-03-29 00:41:11 +0530 |
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| committer | Vijay Dev <vijaydev.cse@gmail.com> | 2011-03-29 00:41:11 +0530 |
| commit | 910a8d22460a8b8e67a16441dadb87cc12ab7a4a (patch) | |
| tree | a0561863efa0e49b6f1982b6a39182e7750c5083 /railties/guides/source/security.textile | |
| parent | 7b9bdd9253c7f8f3b89664ac616ff9bd5ea3ac87 (diff) | |
| parent | 62dd3458e326b1f2927d43401e7b10004410fdf0 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' of github.com:lifo/docrails
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diff --git a/railties/guides/source/security.textile b/railties/guides/source/security.textile index 182f3631ef..893f65856c 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/security.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/security.textile @@ -57,7 +57,11 @@ Many web applications have an authentication system: a user provides a user name Hence, the cookie serves as temporary authentication for the web application. Everyone who seizes a cookie from someone else, may use the web application as this user – with possibly severe consequences. Here are some ways to hijack a session, and their countermeasures: -* Sniff the cookie in an insecure network. A wireless LAN can be an example of such a network. In an unencrypted wireless LAN it is especially easy to listen to the traffic of all connected clients. This is one more reason not to work from a coffee shop. For the web application builder this means to _(highlight)provide a secure connection over SSL_. +* Sniff the cookie in an insecure network. A wireless LAN can be an example of such a network. In an unencrypted wireless LAN it is especially easy to listen to the traffic of all connected clients. This is one more reason not to work from a coffee shop. For the web application builder this means to _(highlight)provide a secure connection over SSL_. In Rails 3.1 and later, this could be accomplished by always forcing SSL connection in your application config file: + +<ruby> +config.force_ssl = true +</ruby> * Most people don't clear out the cookies after working at a public terminal. So if the last user didn't log out of a web application, you would be able to use it as this user. Provide the user with a _(highlight)log-out button_ in the web application, and _(highlight)make it prominent_. |