php sessions problem (fwd)

Jerry Bonner Systems Analyst / Web Development [bonnej@prairie.lakes.com] --------------------------------- Prairie Lakes Internet ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 15:43:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry <bonnej@prairie.lakes.com> To: php-general@list.php.net Subject: php sessions problem ok heres part of the code i have: if ($method == "view") { Header("Content-Type: ".mime_type($file_data->file_name)); Header("Content-Disposition: filename=$file_data->file_name"); Header("Content-Length: ".filesize($file_data->path)); } else { Header("Content-Type: application/octect-stream" ); Header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file_data->file_name"); Header("Content-Length: ".filesize($file_data->path)); } readfile($file_data->path); now this code works fine, but if i add session_start(); to the beginning of the script and try to download a file IE will bring up a dialog asking whether to save the file or open it from the location, i choose save the file and then it brings up the dialog to name the file, now if i choose cancel at this point and then retry to download the file, the browser sits there for about 3 minutes before displaying a page unavailable error, and any attempt to access pages that have sessions do the same, the only way to access those pages again is to close the browser completely (including multiple windows that might be open) and reopen the browser again. What the hell is going on? btw im using PHP/4.0.1pl2 with Apache/1.3.3 on Cobalt Linux Jerry Bonner Systems Analyst / Web Development [bonnej@prairie.lakes.com] --------------------------------- Prairie Lakes Internet