On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Peter Curran wrote:

> important (or relevant).  Having authenticated via the external service, the
> user is redirected back to the portal with some embedded values in a GET
> request.

isnt this method susceptible to a man-in-the-middle replay attack ? a
traffic snooper could read the redirected http request from the client,
and replay this packet to the m0n0wall in order to get access.

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