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Session id detection

Discussion in 'Programming' started by sarahk, Apr 28, 2004.

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    I'm looking through some page data and want to eliminate sessions from the variables passed in a url.

    I have no way of knowing what the session name will be - it could be sessid, cs, sid, etc. I'm using a standard test of 32 or 82 chars but one of the sites sending me data has variable length session ids.

    Is there a standard way to detect this?

    examples:
     cs= 
cs=127bd94c883ffd499bca95c324
c%2F%2F%2F
cs=5433cd98e6d
    Code (markup):
    The easy workaround is trim off the query string but they are often valuable data.
     
    sarahk, Apr 28, 2004 IP
  2. er2er

    er2er Peon

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    In PHP, this should work:
    preg_replace("/cs=[^&]*&?/i",'', $url);
    PHP:
    where $url contains the url.
     
    er2er, Apr 28, 2004 IP
  3. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Why are the session IDs named differently? Can't you change them to be consistent?

    - Shawn
     
    digitalpoint, Apr 28, 2004 IP
  4. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    If only!

    I'm taking data from other sites and I don't want to have to vet them as they come, although I guess I could get them to say how they id sessions - but in the example given they may not even be aware that the session info gets produced for some bots.

    I flag the urls which have session info attached and hopefully site owners will use that info to make alternative arrangements for when bots visit. But like the bots I don't want to create a record for every page and session id combination.

    I think, Shawn, you've just given me my workaround. I'll store the session id string against the domain - as that will be consistent within the domain.


    Thanks er2er but I think this relies on the consistent session name.
     
    sarahk, Apr 28, 2004 IP
  5. er2er

    er2er Peon

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    Yes, it does - I assumed this was what you wanted.
    What about:
    preg_replace("/(cs|sessionid|sid|sesid)=[^&]*&?/i",'', $url);
    PHP:
    It can be easily extended by adding more names to "(cs|sessionid|sid|sesid)"

    However, storing what id_name belongs to what domain looks as a beter idea to me :)
     
    er2er, Apr 29, 2004 IP