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Is using session safe?
4 Answers. Sessions are significantly safer than, say, cookies. But it is still possible to steal a session and thus the hacker will have total access to whatever is in that session. Some ways to avoid this are IP Checking (which works pretty well, but is very low fi and thus not reliable on its own), and using a nonce …
Is it good to store data in session?
Sessions are secure because of the fact that they are stored server side. Session variables are more secure than cookies, because they’re on your server, not the user’s computer. Sessions aren’t perfect though — they can be hijacked by stealing the session key.
Is it safe to pass session id through url?
Strangely when you right click a code in Eclipse-Force.com-IDE and select “Force.com>>Show in Salesforce web” it automatically opens up SFDC page by passing the session ID in the URL. However I am curious about how secure sending session ID through URL.?
Is it safe to use session variables in.net?
And in case your server does get hacked, the hacker would only have access to the data in his own session, unless he finds a way to analyze the IIS process’ memory. Very safe, .NET session variables are not the same as cookie variables which can be viewed from the client side, Session variables in this instance are only accessible from the C# code.
Where is the session state stored in a database?
Session state is kept entirely server-side, no matter which storage method you use (in-memory, session state server or database). So unless your server is hacked, Session variables are safe.
Can a whole object be stored in session?
You can also store a whole object in the Session, so you could store a user object in session such as Then you load it back in on load of each page. Then you could get user.UID from session each time. All good until your website outgrows a single server.