Jonathan is a network administrator who is currently testing the internal security of his network. He is attempting to hijack a session, using Ettercap, of a user connected to his Web server. Why will Jonathan not succeed?
Jonathan is a network administrator who is currently testing the internal security of his network. He is attempting to hijack a session, using Ettercap, of a user connected to his Web server. Why will Jonathan not succeed?
Jonathan will not succeed because the HTTP protocol does not maintain session. HTTP is a stateless protocol, meaning that each request made to the server is independent of any other request. This lack of maintained session or state information makes it impossible to hijack a web session in the way Jonathan is attempting.
HTTP is a stateless protocol and, consequently, every HTTP request a website receives is viewed independently.