Re: sessions and trans-sid problem/question

Ernest E Vogelsinger wrote:

No, that's a misunderstanding. Session var's are never passed to and from the client, only the session _name_ is passed, either via a cookie (PHPSESSIONID) or via trans-sid href encoding.

Thanks for clearing that up! I hadn't realized that only the session name was passed around. I thought all the session data was too. This now hands me a dilemma ... I was building my site conservatively, i.e. assuming the user would have cookies turned off. And so I am making heavy use of session variables. *But* I had thought that if the user had cookies enabled then the variables would be saved as cookie information, hence saving my server a lot of disk reads and writes. Now you have shown me the err of my ways ... I have to consider rewriting my scripts so that if cookies *are* enabled the session information is sent has cookie data. Hum ... I hate re-writes .... Jc