Re: intermittent session loss

Check the cookies you have stored in your browser. I once had similar problem, when I had 2 cookies of the same name set, but different in path, one had "/directory" the other one "/directory/" Justin French wrote:

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

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