Re: Netaddress and amexmail

[ident () LINEONE NET (Stone)]

> Hi people.
>
> I've been using NetAdress and AmexMail (actually, the same company) for a
> couple of years now. I have one account in each one.
>
> Well, the point is that today I decided to play a little:
>
> I logged into my AmexMail account. After a successfull login you are
> redirected to http://www.amexmail.com/tpl/Door/SomeUniqueID/Welcome
>
> Ok, I opened a second browser and cut&pasted that into this new browser
> window, BUT changing amexmail by netaddress. Results?
> I had my account opened in two different browser windows, with the small
> difference that the sessions were different. In one I had the amexmail
> user interface, and in the other I had the netaddress user interface.
> I had no friends online at that moment to send'em the URL to see if they
> could login without supplying the password.
>
> Ok, I now this is kind of stupid, but who knows?

The site is probably using cookies to authenticate that its you after you
first login
into the site so you do not have to authenticate with it for every action
you perform
when logged in. Try using a cookie cleaner after you have logged in then
check if
you can login within another browser window.

Hope this helps, Chris - chris.hearn () btinternet com