I'll check that.

Robin
On Jun 13, 2013 9:04 PM, "Danilo Nascimento" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Peharps session.referer_check is enable?* *
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/session.configuration.php#ini.session.referer-check
>
> []'s Danilo Clemente
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 13, 2013 8:51 PM, "Danilo Nascimento" <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Do both sites use the same php.ini?
>>
>> Not sure, I'll check
>>
>> > The hostname is the same?
>> Yes
>>
>> >
>> > Is it a session cookie or a persistent cookie ( I think that a session
>> cookie depending on browser are not shared between http and https)
>>
>> Session cookie. If it weren't shared then it would never work but it does
>> some of the time.
>>
>> > You can use the chrome "Developer Tools" (F12 on chrome) -> resources
>> -> Cookies to check this out.
>> >
>> > Take a look at this page:
>> http://www.php.net/manual/en/session.configuration.php#ini.session.save-handler
>> > Maybe they aren't sharing the same handler.
>>
>> But why would this be occasional and not permanent?
>>
>> Robin
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> []'s Danilo Nascimento
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Robin Wood <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi
>> >> It is mod_php running on apache/Linux and you are right, it is php
>> that handles the sessions not Apache.
>> >>
>> >> Any ideas?
>> >>
>> >> Robin
>> >>
>> >> On Jun 13, 2013 8:03 PM, "Danilo Nascimento" <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Hi Robin.
>> >>>
>> >>> It sounds like it is a platform dependent issue.
>> >>> As far as i know the sessions storage are handle by
>> AppServer/Plataform and not by apache itself (Apache only pass the session
>> cookies to the plataform)
>> >>>
>> >>> What language/plataform are they using? (PHP, JavaEE, .Net, asp e
>> etc?)
>> >>> How does the apache respond to the requests ( A specific Handler,
>> mod_proxy, a CGI/FastCGI e etc) ?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> []'s Danilo Nascimento
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Robin Wood <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I've got a client I'm doing some dev work for and they have a website
>> >>>> that spans HTTP and HTTPS and the site needs to pass a session cookie
>> >>>> between both. Ignore the fact that this isn't the best way to do
>> >>>> things, it is a legacy site and there isn't rewrite budget.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The problem I've got is that occasionally the two sides don't appear
>> >>>> to be sharing the same session file on disk so values put in to the
>> >>>> session on the HTTP side are not appearing on the HTTPS side and vise
>> >>>> versa. It isn't consistent and I've not been able to pin down any
>> >>>> pattern when it does it.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The hosting company is a black box who haven't been able to offer
>> much
>> >>>> help. They say that there is no load balancer in place and that both
>> >>>> the sites are running on the same Apache instance with no special
>> >>>> config beyond the default.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I've put a test script on both sides which displays the current
>> >>>> session id and tries to store and retrieve values, the session ids
>> >>>> match over the two sides so it isn't the browser doing something and
>> >>>> messing those up.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Can anyone suggest anything that could cause this? If the two sides
>> >>>> were consistently unable to share things then I'd put it down to both
>> >>>> using different session files on disk. If it were that a session
>> >>>> created on HTTPS couldn't be seen by HTTP then it could be the secure
>> >>>> flag, but that isn't set.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Robin
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