PHP 4.0 Bug #4332: Session-Management doesn't work

From: d.schaefer@echo.ch Operating system: NT4 SVP6 (IIS 4) PHP version: 4.0 Release Candidate 1 PHP Bug Type: Misbehaving function Bug description: Session-Management doesn't work After session_start() or session_register() the browser does not display anything. In the following example, only "This is visible" is shown. The same thing happens, when I start the session with "session_register()". <?php echo "This is visible"; session_start(); echo "This is not visible"; session_register("count"); $count++; ?> Hello visitor, you have seen this page <? echo $count; ?> times.<p> ______________________________________________ [Session] session.save_handler = files ; handler used to store/retrieve data session.save_path = /tmp ; argument passed to save_handler ; in the case of files, this is the ; path where data files are stored session.use_cookies = 1 ; whether to use cookies session.name = PHPSESSID ; name of the session ; is used as cookie name session.auto_start = 0 ; initialize session on request startup session.cookie_lifetime = 0 ; lifetime in seconds of cookie ; or if 0, until browser is restarted session.cookie_path = / ; the path the cookie is valid for session.cookie_domain = ; the domain the cookie is valid for session.serialize_handler = php ; handler used to serialize data ; php is the standard serializer of PHP session.gc_probability = 1 ; procentual probability that the ; 'garbage collection' process is started ; on every session initialization session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440 ; after this number of seconds, stored ; data will be seen as 'garbage' and ; cleaned up by the gc process session.referer_check = ; check HTTP Referer to invalidate ; externally stored URLs containing ids session.entropy_length = 0 ; how many bytes to read from the file session.entropy_file = ; specified here to create the session id ; session.entropy_length = 16 ; session.entropy_file = /dev/urandom session.cache_limiter = nocache ; set to {nocache,private,public} to ; determine HTTP caching aspects session.cache_expire = 180 ; document expires after n minutes