Dear Adam,

    Are you using 'realm' authentication setup?

with regards
Sukumar .S

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Adam wrote:

> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:47:42 -0600
> From: Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] Help! (How are sessions intended to work?)
> 
> My Setup Specs
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> 
> PHP 4.1.1, MySQL 3.23.36, & Apache 1.3.19 with mod_auth_mysql on OpenBSD 
> 3.0 (OS).
> 
> Issue
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> 
> Scenerio: User provides user_id and password. user_id and password are 
> checked against the database (MySQL). If authentication is true the a 
> session is started based on thier user_id. If autehentication is false 
> Error 403 is displayed to user.
> 
> How do you destroy a session/user authentication so the user can not use 
> the browser back button? I have session_destroy() which seems to work 
> fine (deletes session files in /tmp) but when you press the browser back 
> button the exact session that was supposidly destroied is created again. 
> I've tried using unset() to reset variables but that doesn't seem to 
> work either. Any ideas... please epxplain this to me. I'm total lost why 
> this isn't working. BTW, I'm using cookies. Another question I would 
> have is.. to kill the cookie do I have to use set_cookie to remove the 
> cookie from the users browser or is this also destroied in the 
> session_destroy process? If it is suppose to be why is it not doing so?
> 
> 
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