Re: Why are Session Variables carried over into a brand new browser window?

"Bob Bruce - Programmer" <covariance@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:000601c424e5$3a83e690$3ba44d18@cs41617a... > This is my first posting to this group, so I am not familiar > with any special etiquette for it, please bear with me. . . > > I maintain the PHP code for the website for the murals of Winnipeg and > have found a situation where I have a session open with the state of > the user's search results saved in the session and link to a location > with the following link: > > <A target="blank" > href="http://www.themuralsofwinnipeg.com/Mpages/index.php?action=gotomural&m > uralid=179"> > > so this opens a new browser window, but it is inheriting the session values > from the browser window that called it and is causing problems in the new > window. When I open a new browser window shouldn't it start a whole new > session and not get anything from the previous browser. You can solve this problem by not working with cookies and instead forwarding the sessionID with the URL: <A target="blank" href="http://www.themuralsofwinnipeg.com/Mpages/index.php?<?= SID; ?>&action=gotomural&muralid=179"> So if you open a new page WITHOUT forwarding the sessionID a new session will be started. See the part named "Passing the Session ID" on the following manual page to see how to do it: http://de2.php.net/session Regards, Torsten Roehr > > Thanks in advance for your help, > > Bob Bruce, > Winnipeg, Manitoba > Canada