Re: Problem with sessions and Internet Explorer

At 14:24 22.11.2002, Andreas Otto spoke out and said: --------------------[snip]-------------------- >We have added some new features to a SiteShield protected website which makes >it neccessary to use sessions. Although creating the session and the >appropriate variables is a server side process there seem to be problems with >IE (tested with version 6 on Win2000 Pro and WinXP Pro). > >If I access the site with IE I will see the following error message at the >bottom of the page: > >Warning: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current >setting of session.save_path is correct (/home/globstag/tmp) in Unknown on >line 0 > >However if I access the site with any other browser writing the session data >works. --------------------[snip]-------------------- Hi, I don't see how this behaviour could be related to a browser version - all browsers behave (should behave?) identically when requesting a page... they simply issue a MIME request, like GET /?PHPSESSIONID=aasdasdasdasdasdasd HTTP/1.0 Host: www.yourhost.com The message you see looks disturbing to me - is the session.save_path value actually set to /home/globstag/tmp? Does Apache (or else) have all necessary rights to this directory? _MAYBE_ you're using some mod_rewrite rules on the target server, depending on the user agent, so IE's would end up in a defunct installation? I'd check for this inn the first place. -- >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger (\) ICQ #13394035 ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/