PHP 4.0 Bug #5880: sessions not working

From: rusty@socrates.berkeley.edu Operating system: solaris 2.7 PHP version: 4.0.1pl2 PHP Bug Type: Session related Bug description: sessions not working This is an addendum to bug id 5770. That bug report contains my config files. sas asked me to explain what I mean by "sessions are not working". What is happening is that the variable I registered with session_register does not show up in the next page. My previous example .php files may not have been the best example; here are updated versions. Not only does the registered variable not get passed, but the value returned by session_id() keeps changing. I tried it with both IE 5.5 and with Netscape Communicator 4.7. I also tried it with cookies turned off in IE 5.5 and I removed all of the cookie files from IE's cache directory; still no success. (The sess_ files in /tmp do have data in them.) ===> start of aaa.php <=== <? session_start(); if (! isset($email)) { $email = "abc"; session_register("email"); } ?> <html> <body> <? echo("Session id is " . session_id() . "<p>"); ?> <a href="bbb.php">Continue</a> </body> </html> ===> end of aaa.php <=== ===> start of bbb.php <=== <? session_start(); if (! isset($email)) $email = "(unset)"; ?> <html> <body> <? echo("<p>Your login is $email<p>"); echo("Session id is " . session_id() . "<p>"); ?> <a href="aaa.php">Back to aaa</a> </body> ===> end of bbb.php <===