I have diagnosed a problem with sessions I am having. I'm don't believe it's necessarily a PHP problem, but I thought someone must have seen this before.

The first thing I do is a

session_start()

and then determine if (using session variables) whether the user has logged in successfully using a password and their session has not timed out (to some value I keep track of, not the php.ini variables). Anyway, if I come in to my site using a fully qualified domain name such as

http://mysubsite.mycompany.com/index.php

and start a session and then have the user log in, I then pass them along to:

http://mysubsite/index.php

internal to my organization (using the non-qualified domain name). But this starts a different session than the one they came in as, so this user now has two different sessions, the one that determined they needed to log in on (using the fully qualified domain name) and the second session that was started after they logged in (using the non-qualified name).

I see this problem when you set your default browser 'home' page to be

http://mysubsite.mycompany.com/index.php

and attempt to use that. Every time you click on that (after you've logged in initially and haven't timed out) you go immediately to a login window since that session is still around and was never logged in.

If my default browser home page is:

http://mysubsite/index.php

you then get into the session that was started after you log in.

The reason I think this issue must have come up for someone before is that almost all of my users should be able to use

http://mysubsite/index.php

BUT if you're coming in (from home for example), you need to come in as
http://mysubsite.mycompany.com/index.php for it to find my site.

Is there some way for a session to be registered to both?

mysubsite.mycompany.com  (using the fully qualified domain name)
 AND
mysubsite  (using the non-fully qualified domain name)


Thanks,
Bruce

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