04302005 1810 GMT-6

Im using php5 and the server does have 4.2 or greater. Actually i 
believe its 4.3.9.

Shouldnt this be handled automatically then?
I am using the if (isset ....
This is just a login page to the next interior page.

Wade



Bill Kamp wrote:

>PHP preserves sessions either by using cookies or by tokens. If you use
>cookies, and one browser supports cookies, 
>and the other does not, the latter will break the site. 
> 
>PHP 4.2 handles this automatically. But there are a some caveats:
>1 You need to use the _SESSION variable to access session information.
>2 You check to see if a session variable is registered by using 
>if (!session_is_registered
><mk:@MSITStore:C:\local\hlp\php\php_manual_en.chm::/function.session-is-regi
>stered.html> ('foo')) { 
>rather than 
>if ( ! isset( $foo
>The latter will mostly work, but not always. 
> 
>3 Non-relative URLs are assumed to point to external sites and hence don't
>append the SID, as it would be a security risk to leak the SID to a
>different server. 
> 
>So if you are using PHP < 4.2, or using isset to find if session variables
>are defined, or if you are using 
>absolute URL's, your results may vary with browser. 
> 
>This from the PHP manual:
>
>Passing the Session ID
>
>
>There are two methods to propagate a session id: 
>
>*      Cookies 
>
>*      URL parameter 
>
>The session module supports both methods. Cookies are optimal, but because
>they are not always available, we also provide an alternative way. The
>second method embeds the session id directly into URLs. 
>
>PHP is capable of transforming links transparently. Unless you are using PHP
>4.2 or later, you need to enable it manually when building PHP. Under UNIX,
>pass --enable-trans-sid
><mk:@MSITStore:C:\local\hlp\php\php_manual_en.chm::/install.configure.html#i
>nstall.configure.enable-trans-sid>  to configure. If this build option and
>the run-time option session.use_trans_sid are enabled, relative URIs will be
>changed to contain the session id automatically. 
>
>Note: 
>
>The arg_separator.output
><mk:@MSITStore:C:\local\hlp\php\php_manual_en.chm::/configuration.directives
>html#ini.arg-separator.output>  php.ini directive allows to customize the.
>argument seperator. For full XHTML conformance, specify &amp; there. 
>
>Alternatively, you can use the constant SID which is always defined. If the
>client did not send an appropriate session cookie, it has the form
>session_name=session_id. Otherwise, it expands to an empty string. Thus, you
>can embed it unconditionally into URLs. 
>
>The following example demonstrates how to register a variable, and how to
>link correctly to another page using SID. 
>
>
>Example 856. Counting the number of hits of a single user
>
>copy to clipboard <javascript:void(0);> 
><?php 
>if (!session_is_registered
><mk:@MSITStore:C:\local\hlp\php\php_manual_en.chm::/function.session-is-regi
>stered.html> ('count')) { 
>   session_register
><mk:@MSITStore:C:\local\hlp\php\php_manual_en.chm::/function.session-registe
>r.html> ('count'); 
>   $count = 1; 
>} 
>else { 
>   $count++; 
>} 
>?> 
>
>Hello visitor, you have seen this page <?php echo
><mk:@MSITStore:C:\local\hlp\php\php_manual_en.chm::/function.echo.html>
>$count; ?> times.<p> 
>
>To continue, <A HREF="nextpage.php?<?php echo
><mk:@MSITStore:C:\local\hlp\php\php_manual_en.chm::/function.echo.html>
>strip_tags
><mk:@MSITStore:C:\local\hlp\php\php_manual_en.chm::/function.strip-tags.html
>  
>
>> (SID)?>">click here</A>
>>    
>>
>
>The
><mk:@MSITStore:C:\local\hlp\php\php_manual_en.chm::/function.strip-tags.html
>  
>
>>strip_tags() is used when printing the SID in order to prevent XSS related
>>    
>>
>attacks. 
>
>Printing the SID, like shown above, is not necessary if --enable-trans-sid
><mk:@MSITStore:C:\local\hlp\php\php_manual_en.chm::/install.configure.html#i
>nstall.configure.enable-trans-sid>  was used to compile PHP. 
>
>Note: 
>
>Non-relative URLs are assumed to point to external sites and hence don't
>append the SID, as it would be a security risk to leak the SID to a
>different server. 
>
> 
>
>Bill Kamp
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>Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 5:29 PM
>To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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>Subject: [php_mysql] Session Question
>
>
>04302005 1720 GMT-6
>
>I wanted to post again my problem with sessions.
>
>I have completed my project that I have been working on but when I went 
>to test it (I was testing in Mozilla browser) in IE, the sessions didnt 
>work. It only does not work in IE. In opera and mozilla things are fine 
>but when I try to do this in IE it fails every time.
>
>A browser is a browser so Im uncertain as to my a session wouldnt or 
>couldnt work.
>
>Wade
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