Re: session cookies enabled?

Ford, Mike writes:

You can also set up php.ini and use the built-in sessions with http://php.net/session_start so that PHP will take care of this for you.

That is what I was intending to do. How do I find out if whether or not the session cookie was accepted using the built-in sessions? I found no function for such a test.

Check the SID constant after you've done session_start(). If it has an empty value, the session is using cookies; otherwise, it'll have a value of the form 'sessionname=sessionid', which is what is appended to the URL (or inserted in forms as a hidden value) to propagate the session-id.

Interesting idea. This brings up a question. In order to decide whether to use cookies or SID the built-in sessions must be testing to see if the user's browser will accept the session cookies. How do they do that? If they do it by the "2 page", send a cookie and see if it comes back to the second page method we have been talking about, then somehow, they are sureptiously inserting a forward to a non- existant page! Right? How do they do that? Best, Craig ------------------------------------------------------

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