Re: php and session issues continued...

On Sat, September 16, 2006 5:24 am, Dave Goodchild wrote: > When each form is successfully processed the user is redirected to the > next > stage using header('Location...'). I call session_write_close before > that to > ensure the session data is written out before the redirect, but the > problem > persists. > > Anyone recognise this issue. It is not IE-specific as it happens to me > on > Firefox intermittently. I am at my wits end! Thanks in advance for any > help! Rant #37 99.99999% of the time, people doing this are just re-directing to a page on their own server. You can play with all kinds of weird things for the rest of you career, lose all you hair, and chew a lot of aspirin, while you are WASTING http connections bouncing the client / server connection like a cheap rubber ball (only it's a very EXPENSIVE rubber ball)... *OR* you could wise up and just INCLUDE the file you are currently using header("Location: ") to get to. You might have to re-structure your web application a tiny bit, but it will be a better structure than the mess I usually see with all these re-directs. You'll certainly save on bandwidth/hardware as your connections aren't chewed up by re-directs. And, most importantly, you'll have a solution that "just works" on all the browsers, as you eliminate the cookie/location conflict. I can pretty much guarantee somebody will post how well re-direct + cookies works for them, and I'm full of it. I don't see how that could be true with extensive browser-testing... Oh well. Choose your poison. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm