ID: 31184
Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reported By: kamil at kube dot org
-Status: Bogus
+Status: Open
Bug Type: Session related
Operating System: Redhat 9
PHP Version: 5CVS-2004-12-19 (dev)
New Comment:
Hmm, i see what you mean now, but it works very fine here. The output
of the script:
<?
// This code works fine (when changing foo to sid it also does not
work).
session_name('sid');
session_start();
echo 'Session Name: '.session_name().'<br />';
echo 'Session Id: '.session_id().'<br />';
?>
shows:
Session Name: sid
Session Id: 034dafeac0bb2986bda981eb89f6f46d
perhaps you have some settings in php.ini, or session_auto_start set to
true?
Previous Comments:
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[2004-12-21 13:58:09] kamil at kube dot org
Hi, but the problem is that the warnings are not refering to the
sessions _name_, but to the session _id_: this one is claimed to
contain illegal characters. When you look at the example it sure does,
because it is empty and hasn't been generated at all.
Why I'm so eager to know what it's all about, is that it _did work_ for
the last 3 years now with a session name "sid" (all lower case, earlier
php versions) and now doesn't work at all. Changing the name to eg.
"sess" or "PHPSESSID" works fine (see example with foo).
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[2004-12-19 23:04:38] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not to supplant Derick, but I have a guess: "SID" is a defined constant
in PHP that gives the current session identifier, hence the warnings.
This is pretty clear in the documentation, so I would almost guess it
to be expected behavior.
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[2004-12-19 12:55:15] kamil at kube dot org
Hi Derik,
sorry to bother you, but could you tell me why this is bogus? I spent
the whole day searching for an explanation and didn't found anything at
google nor at the php.net pages. A session name "sid" did work fine all
the time until now...
Thanks,
Kamil
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[2004-12-19 12:33:43] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php
.
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[2004-12-19 12:12:57] kamil at kube dot org
Description:
------------
Hi,
once I've updated first to 5.0.3 and now also to the latest snapshot, I
get "illegal character errors" when starting a session with session name
"sid" (defined in php.ini for default, see examples below).
When I change the session name to another value (like "foo" for
example), everything works fine and the session id is set correctly.
When I change the "foo" in the working example to "sid" to set the
session name explicit to that value, the same errors occur.
Thanks for help and best regards,
Kamil
Reproduce code:
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<?
// Error code: Session name is "sid" for default from php.ini.
session_start();
echo 'Session Name: '.session_name().'<br />';
echo 'Session Id: '.session_id().'<br />';
?>
<?
// This code works fine (when changing foo to sid it also does not
work).
session_name('foo');
session_start();
echo 'Session Name: '.session_name().'<br />';
echo 'Session Id: '.session_id().'<br />';
?>
Expected result:
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>From error code:
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: The session id
contains illegal characters, valid characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and
'-,' in /web/music2deal/htdocs/bla1.php on line 3
Session Name: sid
Session Id:
Warning: Unknown: The session id contains illegal characters, valid
characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and '-,' in Unknown on line 0
Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify
that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in
Unknown on line 0
--------
>From the working code:
Session Name: foo
Session Id: u4i4o1hekpranqom4m8tu1u074
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