#22054 [Opn->Bgs]: Starting session from specified ID fails

ID: 22054 Updated by: sniper@php.net Reported By: tboardma@indiana.edu -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Session related Operating System: Windows 2000 PHP Version: 4.3.0 New Comment: There's not much point in setting the session.auto_start off in a script since at that time, the session is already started. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-02-04 13:55:48] tboardma@indiana.edu Running SERVER_SOFTWARE Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Server API ISAPI ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-02-04 13:04:10] tboardma@indiana.edu I have a script that saves information to a session variable and then sends the session_id to another script via POST, which does something, then sends data to another PHP script by silent POST, including the session_id, which is to retrieve the original values saved in the session, specified by it's original session_id. 1st PHP script: $USER_FORM = "a bunch of text"; session_register("USER_FORM"); $sess = session_id(); exit; 2nd PHP script: /* We want to start our session from a session id that is passed to us in POST data */ $sess = $HTTP_POST_VARS['sess'}; ini_set("session.auto_start", "0"); ini_set("session.cache_limiter", "public"); session_id($sess); session_start(); global $USER_FORM; /* Instead of printint the "bunch of text", it prints nothing */ print $USER_FORM; This same code worked using PHP 4.0.6 running on UNIX. In my php.ini, I have session_auto_start set to true, which is why I turn it off by setting the ini in the 2nd script. Register globals is on. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=22054&edit=1