Re: SPAM: Re: [PHP] intermittent session loss

on 17/01/03 1:24 AM, 1LT John W. Holmes (holmes072000@charter.net) wrote: > Is there any kind of load balancing on your server? It's a single server, so to the best of my knowledge, no. > If you watch the session > files in /tmp, are they getting erased? No, because they reappear and page or two later. I confirmed this with a simple incrementing session counter, and the results were bizarre. You would expect the number to increase in sequence: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10...50 But instead, I got: 0,1,2,3,0,4,5,1,6,7,2,8,9,3,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,4 I can see two sessions in there... one that gets to 18, the other getting to 4. Again, this is NOT a repeatable bug... right now, it just counted perfectly up to 25 before I got bored... :) Justin > ---John Holmes... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Justin French" <justin@indent.com.au> > To: "php" <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 2:55 AM > Subject: [PHP] intermittent session loss > > >> Hi, >> >> I think I may have made some headway with my server problems. I loaded > the >> site onto another account within the same machine, and I can't seem to >> replicate the "document contained no data" error at all. >> >> BUT I did notice that once I login (it says "you are logged in as justin" >> across the top of the screen), if I refresh the same page a few times, it >> will MOSTLY say "you are logged in as..." but OCCASIONALLY it says "click >> here to login"... >> >> The server does use trans-sid, but in my case, it's using cookies... the >> session doesn't get LOST (because it's "back" next time I refresh), but >> I > do >> appear to be "logged out" until I refresh again. >> >> VERY strange. >> >> To investigate further, I turned off cookies, and tried again... after 5 > or >> so refreshes, I lost the session ID out of the URL. >> >> >> Whilst I can't repeat the problem on the original account, I have a > feeling >> these two issues are related. >> >> >> What's likely to cause this? >> >> >> Here's the Session section of phpinfo(): >> >> -- >> Session Support enabled >> Directive Local Value Master Value >> session.auto_start Off Off >> session.cache_expire 180 180 >> session.cache_limiter nocache nocache >> session.cookie_domain no value no value >> session.cookie_lifetime 0 0 >> session.cookie_path / / >> session.cookie_secure Off Off >> session.entropy_file /dev/urandom /dev/urandom >> session.entropy_length 256 256 >> session.gc_maxlifetime 900 900 >> session.gc_probability 1 1 >> session.name PHPSID PHPSID >> session.referer_check no value no value >> session.save_handler mm mm >> session.save_path /tmp /tmp >> session.serialize_handler php php >> session.use_cookies On On >> session.use_trans_sid 1 1 >> -- >> >> My LAN server's values (not compiled with trans-sid) are: >> -- >> Session Support enabled >> Directive Local Value Master Value >> session.auto_start Off Off >> session.cache_expire 180 180 >> session.cache_limiter nocache nocache >> session.cookie_domain no value no value >> session.cookie_lifetime 0 0 >> session.cookie_path / / >> session.cookie_secure Off Off >> session.entropy_file no value no value >> session.entropy_length 0 0 >> session.gc_maxlifetime 1440 1440 >> session.gc_probability 1 1 >> session.name PHPSESSID PHPSESSID >> session.referer_check no value no value >> session.save_handler files files >> session.save_path /tmp /tmp >> session.serialize_handler php php >> session.use_cookies On On >> -- >> >> Biggest difference I can see (not that I really know what I'm looking for) >> is that locally, the save_handler is 'mm' (memory?), and on the server, > it's >> files. And the entropy stuff, which I don't understand :) >> >> >> So, what could cause the session to drop (then kick back in again) by > simply >> refreshing the page a few times? >> >> >> Many thanks in advance, >> >> Justin French >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses] > >