Re: MSN Explorer & PHP Sessions failing

On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 02:30 PM, Lindsey Simon wrote:

Unfortunately, I've been unable to duplicate this problem on my own machine with MSN 8 (win2k), but I have users of my software who use the MSN explorer browser complaining at me. It appears that sessions are not being properly initialized, because my PHP software is failling at a point where it should be reading a $_SESSION var. My host runs PHP 4.2.2. Anyhow, I'm just looking for a lead on what might be the issue here and how I might rectify it.

Lindsey, For starters, Does your session code rely on cookies being enabled on the client side? Or do you pass the session around in the URL? If < 4.2.0, was PHP compiled with enable_trans_sid Or is it >= 4.2.0? I have no idea what MSN8 is -- I thought MSIE was up to about 6, but I'm a mac user, so maybe you're talking about something else? My *guess* is that you're on php < 4.2, and you're relying on cookies for sessions. For any user with cookies turned off, the session will break. Justin