PHP 4.0 Bug #7615: Session management in thttpd / proxy problem

From: tictactux@surfeu.ch Operating system: Linux 2.2.17 (Slackware 7.1) PHP version: 4.0.3pl1 PHP Bug Type: Other web server Bug description: Session management in thttpd / proxy problem I installed thttpd-2.20b with PHP 4.0.3pl1 with --with-trans-sid, --with-imap --with-sockets --with-thttpd. I have Squirrelmail and Dragonflymail installed to check them out. Both worked. When trying to access them via a company's firewall, login was not possible, neither via trans-sid nor cookies. I ran a network trace against both thttpd and apache (on which the very same box with the very same apps work) and saw that thttpd is very quick (as not to say impatient) at session build-up. It simply does not seem to wait until the client had answered *all* questions. It seems that the client has no time to transmit session IDs *and* POSTing the login information. I've read somewhere that someone had as similar problem with apache which he solved by adding a delay in the session-buildup routine. I don't know if this is a thttpd problem or php-in-thttpd problem. Other pages (that had nothing to do with session stuff) just work fine. For the time being, I leave apache installed although its footprint is way bigger than thttpd's... Regards, Ben -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=7615&edit=1