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Laravel – Session store not set on request

You’ll need to use the web middleware if you need session state, CSRF protection, and more. Route::group([‘middleware’ => [‘web’]], function () { // your routes here });

Why not generate the secret key every time Flask starts?

The secret key is used to sign the session cookie. If you had to restart your application, and regenerated the key, all the existing sessions would be invalidated. That’s probably not what you want (or at least, not the right way to go about invalidating sessions). A similar case could be made for anything else … Read more

Check if cookies are enabled

JavaScript In JavaScript you simple test for the cookieEnabled property, which is supported in all major browsers. If you deal with an older browser, you can set a cookie and check if it exists. (borrowed from Modernizer): if (navigator.cookieEnabled) return true; // set and read cookie document.cookie = “cookietest=1”; var ret = document.cookie.indexOf(“cookietest=”) != -1; … Read more

Selenium: Point towards default Chrome session

Make sure you are pointing to the right folder using “Chrome://version”. I am using the windows but it should be similar in you mac case too. Refer to this link for more information. How to create a custom profile: You can create your own custom profile by just running Chrome (on the command-line or through … Read more

PHP Session Fixation / Hijacking

Ok, there are two separate but related problems, and each is handled differently. Session Fixation This is where an attacker explicitly sets the session identifier of a session for a user. Typically in PHP it’s done by giving them a url like http://www.example.com/index…?session_name=sessionid. Once the attacker gives the url to the client, the attack is … Read more

Invalidating JSON Web Tokens

I too have been researching this question, and while none of the ideas below are complete solutions, they might help others rule out ideas, or provide further ones. 1) Simply remove the token from the client Obviously this does nothing for server side security, but it does stop an attacker by removing the token from … Read more