Hi,
This may not be the right place for this question, but what I'm looking to understand is the reasoning behind what seems to be the standard session behavior in PHP. And, if it's possible, how to change this behavior (via INI settings, etc.).
As I understand (and experience) it, if a client [browser] presents a session id (e.g. in a cookie) to the server, then PHP will attempt to match that ID to the session on the system. If found, that session information will be made available to the scripts. Fine. But, if *not found* then a new session will be created with the specified ID.
Is there any way to disable this behavior? I can't think of a single circumstance under which this would be the desired behavior, but my use of sessions has been more limited to authentication & web applications.
I actually came across one situation where I took advantage of this feature and relied on it in an application. It had to do with replicating parts of a session across a cluster of servers (also for use in authentication).
Zeev
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