#16263 [Com]: session.start() create new empty session file and not resume existing session

ID: 16263 Comment by: roland at lichti dot de Reported By: kur at natur dot cuni dot cz Status: No Feedback Bug Type: Session related Operating System: ANY PHP Version: 4.3.0-dev New Comment: Sorry for this rant, but I'm really pissed off: the session handling problem is reported several times and every time closed as "bogus" or "no feedback". I really think that the programming team has no clue where to look at and should reimplement the whole code related to session handling. It's going on now for at least 1 year and there is no solution in sight :-((( Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-10 02:39:09] kasei999 at hotmail dot com Same here, after 3 non-sleeping days and nights I found this forum. I am using win XP with php 4.3.1 + apache 1.3.27 now switching to IIS 5, the problem still exists. Would anyone please try to help? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-04 11:58:25] zorman at pina dot info same problems over here ... i'm experiencing this problem only when I redirect the page using header after the authentication is done ... it works fine on my linux computer (php 4.3.0) but fails on win2k with the same distribution ... very annoying ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-02-08 14:31:45] jmaldonado at webehosting dot biz I just upgraded my servers to 4.3.0 from 4.1.2 and am now experiencing this problem....Sessions are behaving unpredictably in that I can no longer count on the variables I set in the session from one page load to the next... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-11-14 15:18:28] murray dot rennie at ec dot gc dot ca As an addendum...I put the session_start() command, along with session control code, in an include file, and included that in all scripts that required it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-11-14 14:42:28] murray dot rennie at ec dot gc dot ca Redhat 7.2 or 7.3. PhP 4.1.2, Apache 1.3.23. I get something similar to this when I change session.cookie_lifetime to something other than zero, and only when connecting with IE (my version 5.5). PHP generates two session files, one has all the info I initialized with, the second just has the sessionId in it. It's as if it ignores the first session it created and makes a new one. Netscape 4.79 works properly, and when I set session.cookie_lifetime to 0 the problem goes away on IE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/16263 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=16263&edit=1