Re: Session IP address matching

From: Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:44:13 +0000
Subject: Re: Session IP address matching
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Hi!

> I have client who want to distinguish session by session ID.
> They don't want to store IP in session name.
> They would like to know creation and modification time w/o
> actually reading session data for performance reasons.

That would probably require custom read/write methods.

> which is really bad thing to do. session_create_id() generate ID using
> the same code PHP generates ID which is much secure than above and
> supposed to be faster than user land script.

I agree that exposing the ID creation function is a good addition
(actually if it was available I'd probably use it in other contexts
where I need a random token, not necessarily a session ID as such).
Maybe we need even more generic function and have session reuse that
code, too.
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