Hi,

I have an app that makes  http requests to a php script on the server.  If I 
have session_start() in the back end file so I can use session variables in 
php, I get the following error:

[RPC Fault faultString="HTTP request error" faultCode="Server.Error.Request"

faultDetail="Error: [IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false 
eventPhase=2 text="Error #2032"].

URL: https://path.to/my/file.php";]

But only when I use Internet Explorer.  If I use Firefox, it all works 
beautifully.

If I rem out the session_start() line in the php script it works fine, so I can 
confirm that that is the line that is causing the error.  Has anyone seen this?

Here's my goal.  I have an app that plays videos and users aren't supposed to 
be able to download the video easily.  The very popular firefox plugin Video 
DownloadHelper can see the mp4 files (but not the flv files for some reason) 
and download them.  I use a php file to read the contents of the videos from a 
non-web accessible folder.  I want to use mp4.  What I did was to set a php 
session variable when the user selects the file from the combobox, then 
immediately fetch the video.  Right before it sends the video the php file 
unsets the session variable.  This means that the user has to use my combobox 
to see the file, because it is the only thing that can set the session variable 
and the variable is destroyed as the file is sent.

This is only meant to stop casual copying.  Our faculty is aware that there's 
always a way to capture the video.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Bob

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