RE: [PHP] Re: Session expiry issues in IE, still.

Interesting point. After all, to remove a cookie you simply give it an expire time in the past. However, it should only explain the lack of cookie receipt. Since the user is able to surf for a period of time on the site before getting the boot, I wouldn't think it would apply. In the last post it sounded like it is not at "5 min" but rather "expiring very speradically". I bet there is a particular page that is killing them. Perhaps one of the re-writes or something. I would take IE and start traversing the site to see if you can't localize it to one area when it happens.(or more in particular where you just came from when it dropped). Larry PS if you have a dev site to work on, and the session checks are in a header, try changing the header to display the session ID and watch it for a change while you surf it. -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Weier O'Phinney [mailto:matthew@garden.org] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 9:08 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Re: Session expiry issues in IE, still. * Tarrant Costelloe <taz@tazonline.org>: > I wrote to the list a couple of days ago about issues Planet-Tolkien.com > members were experiencing with Internet Explorer, where their PHP based > $_SESSION seemed to be expiring very speradically, where as Mozilla and > Opera browsers this issue was not occuring and they would stay logged-in. > It would appear this is a bit of a lost subject and little is known as to > why this might be happening on the list. Something I read in the past week while investigating session issues of my own is that you can run into problems using cookie-based sessions with IE if your server's clock is behind the client machine's clock -- IE is particularly sensitive to this particular situation, and expires the cookies -- which leaves the person using IE without a session. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Webmaster and IT Specialist National Gardening Association 802-863-5251 x156 mailto:matthew@garden.org http://www.garden.org http://www.kidsgardening.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php