Re: Session Issues with Certain ISPs

Hi Richard, Sorry to have not responded for so long, and thanks for your views. It turns out the problem is browser based, at least in part. A windows PC with IE6 in our office could not get the site working right, whereas a linux laptop with firefox was fine with it. The immediate need is over now, but I think I'll look into database sessions for future systems. Cheers, Mark Richard Lynch wrote:

On Wed, July 18, 2007 9:35 am, Mark Tuma wrote:

I have a fairly simple set of php scripts which use session variables to pass information from one page to the next in an online booking system for an event. In most cases these work fine, but users with a couple of ISPs are consistently unable to use the system, as the session variables seem to get lost along the way. The troublesome ISPs are AOL and BTOpenworld. Does anyone have any experiences that could shed light on this for me?

Not sure how they'd manage it, but if AOL is failing to deliver the proper cookie headers, they'd lose track of there session and pretty much be logged out for all intents and purposes... I have the same issue, but always assumed it was browser-based, or, rather, browser-settings based, as I could never reproduce it even with the same browser version. So "Try another browser" has been my only remedy so far. :-(

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