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Disallow use of PHP sessions #75

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westonruter opened this issue Oct 11, 2013 · 1 comment · Fixed by #102
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Disallow use of PHP sessions #75

westonruter opened this issue Oct 11, 2013 · 1 comment · Fixed by #102
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  • Flag any instance of session_* functions.
  • Flag any accessing of the $_SESSION variable.

session_start() and other session-related functions #

Creating a session writes a file to the server and is unreliable in a multi-server environment.
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Disallow use of PHP sessions.
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Closes #75
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shadyvb commented Oct 20, 2013

Flagging usage of $_SESSION var is addressed in 62829ec

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Add sniff to check for usage of $_SESSION var
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