Re: strange behaviour with login page

On March 9, 2003 12:49 pm, Steve Pollard wrote: > If anyone has come across a similar problem to the one described > below, and has a solution I'd be really grateful if you can help me > out. > > I'm trying to implement a user authentication process where users > can click on an external link to my site. If they're not logged in > they get presented with a login dialog. Once they log in they're > redirected onwards to the page they initially wanted to visit. > > The system I have in place at the moment handles authentication > using sessions. The bizarre thing is, while everything seems to > work on my home pc (windows & iis web server, php 4.2.1), on the > host server (linux, apache, php 4.1.2) I get the login screen twice > before I get redirected. My hunch is that it's something to do with > when session variable become available after registering them. (I'm > using the sesssion management functions built in to php 4). > > TIA > > Steve Hm. I had a similar problem. In my login verification script I would run through a bunch of checks, verify the login/pass in the database and if it was correct I would start a session, register the variables and redirect the user. This wouldn't work most of the time in IE. For some reason it always took a few tries to login. Then I moved the call to session_start() to the beginning of the script and it worked fine. Not sure if this applies to your problem though... Leo