--- includes/bootstrap.inc 2008/01/10 22:14:24 1.145.2.8 +++ includes/bootstrap.inc 2008/08/24 09:00:25 1.145.2.9 @@ -290,6 +290,15 @@ $cookie_domain = check_plain($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']); } } + // To prevent session cookies from being hijacked, a user can configure the + // SSL version of their website to only transfer session cookies via SSL by + // using PHP's session.cookie_secure setting. The browser will then use two + // separate session cookies for the HTTPS and HTTP versions of the site. So we + // must use different session identifiers for HTTPS and HTTP to prevent a + // cookie collision. + if (ini_get('session.cookie_secure')) { + $session_name .= 'SSL'; + } // Strip leading periods, www., and port numbers from cookie domain. $cookie_domain = ltrim($cookie_domain, '.'); if (strpos($cookie_domain, 'www.') === 0) {