[PHP] Session data lost in Firefox
Hi I have a wesite where PHP session data is passed page to page then shells out to Paypal for payment then back to my website for completion of transaction and update of mysql file. When using Firefox our session data and POST data from Paypal is lost. This has happend only recently and has worked happily in the past. Works in other browsers too. Anyone heard of same problems? mywebpage - session data-mywebpage2-session data-paypal page-POST data + session data-mywebpage3 -- Johniboy -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Session data lost in Firefox
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:49 AM, John Boy serv...@greenholdings.co.ukwrote: Hi I have a wesite where PHP session data is passed page to page then shells out to Paypal for payment then back to my website for completion of transaction and update of mysql file. When using Firefox our session data and POST data from Paypal is lost. This has happend only recently and has worked happily in the past. Works in other browsers too. Anyone heard of same problems? mywebpage - session data-mywebpage2-session data-paypal page-POST data + session data-mywebpage3 -- Johniboy Just a thought - does this depend on using third party cookies between your site and PayPal? If so, do you have them disabled in Firefox? Andrew
Re: [PHP] Session data lost in Firefox
Looks like it was a corrupted Paypal cookie lurking about on my test machine. Clearing all Paypal cookies cured the problem. Hours can be spent looking for needles like this in a very complex haystack and it turns out to be the simplest solution that's not even related directly to the programming. Thanks, Andrew for the prompting! However if this happened on a punter's computer the same would happen - so is there a way of coding the removal of third party cookies to avoid this problem? Andrew Ballard aball...@gmail.com wrote in message news:cac1b6rsbydmopeulin0fjmax-vap_uas_1w6e-nr-1shwm+...@mail.gmail.com... On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:49 AM, John Boy serv...@greenholdings.co.ukwrote: Hi I have a wesite where PHP session data is passed page to page then shells out to Paypal for payment then back to my website for completion of transaction and update of mysql file. When using Firefox our session data and POST data from Paypal is lost. This has happend only recently and has worked happily in the past. Works in other browsers too. Anyone heard of same problems? mywebpage - session data-mywebpage2-session data-paypal page-POST data + session data-mywebpage3 -- Johniboy Just a thought - does this depend on using third party cookies between your site and PayPal? If so, do you have them disabled in Firefox? Andrew -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Session data lost in Firefox
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:12 PM, John Boy serv...@greenholdings.co.ukwrote: Looks like it was a corrupted Paypal cookie lurking about on my test machine. Clearing all Paypal cookies cured the problem. Hours can be spent looking for needles like this in a very complex haystack and it turns out to be the simplest solution that's not even related directly to the programming. Thanks, Andrew for the prompting! However if this happened on a punter's computer the same would happen - so is there a way of coding the removal of third party cookies to avoid this problem? As far as I know, if you can set a cookie you can also clear it. I don't like the approach, though. I have 3rd party cookies disabled on purpose. Andrew
