Re: Why cookie is created?

Jerry Swanson wrote:

; Whether to use cookies. session.use_cookies = 0 ; This option enables administrators to make their users invulnerable to ; attacks which involve passing session ids in URLs; defaults to 0. session.use_only_cookies = 1

These settings don't make much sense. You forbid their usage and require it at the same time.

I changed the global variables on PHP. It still stores cookies on my harddrive. Any ideas why? PHP version 4.3.4 On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 16:01:27 -0500, John Nichel <john@kegworks.com> wrote:

Jerry Swanson wrote:

I don't use cookie for my page. I use session. As I understand cookies don't create any files on user computer. I have this code below on my page. When I access this page immediately cookie is created on my computer. Any ideas why?

As soon as you call session_start(), you are 'given' a session id. To track this id from page to page throughout you site, it is stored in a cookie by default. It's all in the manual... http://us4.php.net/session