Re: Sessions w/o cookies and the "Back" button

"Boget, Chris" wrote: > > > Why not use your index page to start the session and register > > any variables needed then, and then use a header("Location ... > > to send them to a new page where they actually see stuff? > > This is the suggestion that Andreas made. And that is all well > and good. But if, for whatever god knows reason, a user click > the back button all the way to that page (like if they were trying > to get back and click it one too many times), then it will hit the > page that starts the session, registers the variable, etc., etc. yadda > yadda and all their previous session information is _lost_. Gone. > This page will start a brand new session, redirect them back to > the index page and the user will have to start all over. > What I do is tag a flag onto the users url while they are going around my site that says they have an id. That way no matter if they land on the index/ or session start page they wont register again... I have tested it continually and have found no surprising situations that I couldn't code a solution. I too needed a solution that did not invlove cookies and this worked well. I can provide more details if needed.... while ($flag != 1 ) { // Won't enter this block again unless the user leaves the site set_up_session_id $flag=1 } .... Good Luck