Re:Ask HN: How does Quora auto login work?
by niftich on Thursday November 17, 2016 @11:22PM
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You can exploit the fact that HTTP caching sends the ETag back and forth. A server can set a crafted ETag and basically use it as a session ID. See [1][2]
[1] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/12679/how-can-i-... [2] https://github.com/lucb1e/cookielesscookies/blob/master/inde...