[PHP] Re: Sessions still do not persist
Michael R. Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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I've posted several times mentioning that I am completely unable
to cause sessions to persist. Over the intervening time, I have
replicated this problem to a different machine, with the same
results. Here's a recap of the problem.
I am not using cookies. Sessions are automatically created (and
changing that makes no difference) The relevant session variables
(copied from phpinfo) are:
Session Support enabled
session.auto_start On - hence no session_start
session.name PHPSESSID
session.use_cookies Off - no cookies
session.use_trans_sidOn
Environment is FreeBSD4.8. phpinfo for apache says:
Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_perl/1.28 PHP/4.3.4 mod_ssl/2.8.16
OpenSSL/0.9.6d
Here is a cut/paste of the borwser screen for the code below:
Stage:0 SessionID: 04ace04b1fe0bc81d2cd678c9bab1619
_ [Submit]
Stage:1 SessionID: 04ace04b1fe0bc81d2cd678c9bab1619 Request: Array ( )
So I type foo into the box and hit submit. And the session variable
is NOT preserved:
Stage:0 SessionID: 55c70989b7279d6a18edfd81b28d67a6
foo___ [Submit]
Stage:1 SessionID: 55c70989b7279d6a18edfd81b28d67a6 Request: Array
[PHPSESSID] = 04ace04b1fe0bc81d2cd678c9bab1619 [field] = foo )
The session directory IS writable and I see the expected information
being written there:
-rw--- 1 nobody wheel 10 May 21 13:35
sess_04ace04b1fe0bc81d2cd678c9bab1619
-rw--- 1 nobody wheel 10 May 21 13:38
sess_55c70989b7279d6a18edfd81b28d67a6
Apache runs as user nobody on this server. Both session files contain:
stage|i:1;
but the files never seem to be being read back!
Help!?
Here's the entire php code I'm testing with:
?
if (!isset($_SESSION['stage'])) {
$_SESSION['stage'] = 0;
}
if (!isset($_POST['field'])) { $_POST['field'] = ; }
?
html
headtitlePHP Test page/title/head
body
?
echo Stage:; echo $_SESSION['stage'];
echo SessionID: ; echo session_id();
$_SESSION['stage'] = 1;
?
form method=post action=xxx.php
input type=text maxlength=7 size=7 name=field value=?echo
$_POST['field']?
input type=submit value=Submit
/form
?
echo Stage:; echo $_SESSION['stage']; echo ;
echo SessionID: ; echo session_id(); echo ;
echo Request: ; print_r($_REQUEST);
?
/body /html
As far as I remember session.use_trans_sid does NOT work with forms (action
attribute). Have you tried appending it manually to the action?:
form method=post action=xxx.php?= SID; ?
Regards, Torsten
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Re: [PHP] Re: Sessions still do not persist
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 08:04:00PM +0200, Torsten Roehr wrote: As far as I remember session.use_trans_sid does NOT work with forms (action attribute). Have you tried appending it manually to the action?: Well, this certainly seems to be progress in the correct direction. So session.use_trans_sid used to work with forms in 4.1.2 (I'm suffering from an upgrade here) but no longer does? This really helps. form method=post action=xxx.php?= SID; ? This ALMOST works. Looks like a seperator is needed. I get: POST /xxx.phpPHPSESSID=3a2c0413ec84a00e36ea0317c193ccb2 HTTP/1.1 Do I want ?=PHPSESSID=sessionID or just ?=sessionID or what? Thanx! /\/\ \/\/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Sessions still do not persist
Michael R. Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 08:04:00PM +0200, Torsten Roehr wrote: As far as I remember session.use_trans_sid does NOT work with forms (action attribute). Have you tried appending it manually to the action?: Well, this certainly seems to be progress in the correct direction. So session.use_trans_sid used to work with forms in 4.1.2 (I'm suffering from an upgrade here) but no longer does? This really helps. form method=post action=xxx.php?= SID; ? This ALMOST works. Looks like a seperator is needed. I get: POST /xxx.phpPHPSESSID=3a2c0413ec84a00e36ea0317c193ccb2 HTTP/1.1 Do I want ?=PHPSESSID=sessionID or just ?=sessionID or what? Sorry, I'm an idiot! The ? was missing: form method=post action=xxx.php??= SID; ? This should work. As far as I have seen trans_sid is not used very often - obviously because of problems like yours. The best way is always to pass the session ID yourself. Either with a cookie or via GET. I prefer GET because with cookies you are reliant on the client supporting/allowing cookies. Regards, Torsten -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Sessions still do not persist
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 08:35:37PM +0200, Torsten Roehr wrote: Sorry, I'm an idiot! The ? was missing: form method=post action=xxx.php??= SID; ? Thank you, thank you. This does indeed seem to work in my test script. Now to go work on the real version. This should work. As far as I have seen trans_sid is not used very often - obviously because of problems like yours. The best way is always to pass the session ID yourself. Either with a cookie or via GET. I prefer GET because with cookies you are reliant on the client supporting/allowing cookies. Oddly, this all worked properly under 4.1.2. When we upgraded, things broke. And I have a strong personal bias against cookies. One again, thank you for the solution! /\/\ \/\/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Sessions still do not persist
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 08:35:37PM +0200, Torsten Roehr wrote:
Sorry, I'm an idiot! The ? was missing:
form method=post action=xxx.php??= SID; ?
Well, I spoke too soon. It does work, but only the SECOND time the
script is run!
Stage:0 SessionID: 6c9a1819fe95fa6f08f385ee2afa71ca
__ [Submit]
Stage:1 SessionID: 6c9a1819fe95fa6f08f385ee2afa71ca Request: Array ( )
Type foo into the form, hit submit and the session variable is not being
preserved:
Stage:0 SessionID: ac429ad0086eb5b4d1130eb2e2fddcb9
foo___ [Submit]
Stage:1 SessionID: ac429ad0086eb5b4d1130eb2e2fddcb9 Request: Array ( [PHPSESSID] =
6c9a1819fe95fa6f08f385ee2afa71ca [field] = foo )
Type bar into the form, hit submit and the session variable
IS being preserved:
Stage:1 SessionID: ac429ad0086eb5b4d1130eb2e2fddcb9
bar___ [Submit]
Stage:1 SessionID: ac429ad0086eb5b4d1130eb2e2fddcb9 Request: Array ( [PHPSESSID] =
ac429ad0086eb5b4d1130eb2e2fddcb9 [field] = bar )
So, what am I missing here?
Code, for reference:
?
if (!isset($_SESSION['stage'])) {
$_SESSION['stage'] = 0;
}
if (!isset($_POST['field'])) { $_POST['field'] = ; }
?
html
headtitlePHP Test page/title/head
body
?
echo Stage:; echo $_SESSION['stage'];
echo SessionID: ; echo session_id();
$_SESSION['stage'] = 1;
?
form method=post action=xxx.php??= SID; ?
input type=text maxlength=7 size=7 name=field value=?echo
$_POST['field']?
input type=submit value=Submit
/form
?
echo Stage:; echo $_SESSION['stage']; echo ;
echo SessionID: ; echo session_id(); echo ;
echo Request: ; print_r($_REQUEST);
?
/body /html
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Re: [PHP] Re: Sessions still do not persist
Michael R. Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 08:35:37PM +0200, Torsten Roehr wrote: Sorry, I'm an idiot! The ? was missing: form method=post action=xxx.php??= SID; ? Well, I spoke too soon. It does work, but only the SECOND time the script is run! Stage:0 SessionID: 6c9a1819fe95fa6f08f385ee2afa71ca __ [Submit] Stage:1 SessionID: 6c9a1819fe95fa6f08f385ee2afa71ca Request: Array ( ) Type foo into the form, hit submit and the session variable is not being preserved: Stage:0 SessionID: ac429ad0086eb5b4d1130eb2e2fddcb9 foo___ [Submit] Stage:1 SessionID: ac429ad0086eb5b4d1130eb2e2fddcb9 Request: Array [PHPSESSID] = 6c9a1819fe95fa6f08f385ee2afa71ca [field] = foo ) Type bar into the form, hit submit and the session variable IS being preserved: Stage:1 SessionID: ac429ad0086eb5b4d1130eb2e2fddcb9 bar___ [Submit] Stage:1 SessionID: ac429ad0086eb5b4d1130eb2e2fddcb9 Request: Array [PHPSESSID] = ac429ad0086eb5b4d1130eb2e2fddcb9 [field] = bar ) So, what am I missing here? You could try it without session.auto_start. Turn it off and put session_start() at the top of the script (in all pages). Regards, Torsten -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Sessions still do not persist
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 09:12:02PM +0200, Torsten Roehr wrote: So, what am I missing here? You could try it without session.auto_start. Turn it off and put session_start() at the top of the script (in all pages). Tried that - makes no difference. Still works properly on the second call but not the first. /\/\ \/\/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
