Re: [PHP] $_SESSION question

2002-11-14 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
At 02:18 15.11.2002, Jochen Kächelin said: [snip] How can I process $_SESSION variables if the user disables cookies and session.use_trans_sid = 0 ? [snip] Simply put - you can't. You need a way to transmit the

Re: [PHP] $_SESSION question

2002-11-14 Thread Sascha Cunz
Simply put - you can't. You need a way to transmit the session identifier, and AFAIK there's nothing except either cookies or SID. Using SID for security relevant issues presents a problem - users can send links with a SID to friends by mail or else, so this is not really a secure

Re: [PHP] $_SESSION question

2002-11-14 Thread Sascha Cunz
Hi Jochen, How can I process $_SESSION variables if the user disables cookies and session.use_trans_sid = 0 ? You could use a combination of outputbuffering and a self-written session-handler. So you could build a trans_sid-alike system, that would do more checks (i.e. compare IP-Addresses)

Re: [PHP] $_SESSION question

2002-11-14 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
At 02:42 15.11.2002, Sascha Cunz said: [snip] This sounds like a pretty good idea to work around that problem :-) Does this system work, if the user decides to split one session accross multiple Browser-Windows, i.e. the uses the Open in new