Re: New window, new session

Riaan Stander wrote: > Hi there > > I know this is not a php specific question, but I don't know where else to > ask. > > I've got the following situation. The website I'm currently working on has > got a administration page where the administration user must be able to > login as all the users available. It is fine getting all the data, but I > want to open the login in a new browser window, otherwise the administrator > has go to re-login with his account. Thus, I need to somehow open a new > browser window, with a new session id. When somebody logs in I check to see > if there is already a session variable registered. If there is, I unset this > variable, and register a new one for the login account. You can see where my > problem is. At this stage I'm using some java script "window.open()" to open > the new window, but it is still with the save session id. > > If any of you can tell me how to open a new browser window with a new > session id, I would greatly appreciate it. > > Thanx > Riaan Riaan, Would it help if you opened the window at another domain? I don't use sessions, as I much prefer http authentication/stateless pages etc. But I get the same problem i.e. admin user has to keep logging in between accounts. The solution is just to change the realm/domain for the admin user e.g. admin.mysite.com. Then the browser keeps separate login/passwords. This should also be possible with cookie based sessions since the browsers will hold separate cookies for different domains and also for different paths if you specify a path on the cookie setting. I don't know if all this session stuff lets you specify the path on the session cookie, but certainly the separate domain technique should work. Hope that helps, George