trouble with reading session variables: BUG?

When using Cookies for session management everything works fine (the authentication part). But not passing the values of the session variables. In the example below the existence of '$ident' is verified. But no chance to get its value: no 'echo' prints out anything! Even isset() denies the existence of $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['ident']. -- example ------------------------------ session_start(); if (!session_is_registered('ident')) { header ("Location: ../index.php"); } // trying to retrieve $ident which is obviously known to the session echo $ident; echo $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['ident']; echo $HTTP_SESSION_VARS['ident']; ----------------------------------------- Tested on Win2000/IIS5 and Linux 6.1/Apache3.12 with PHP4.04pl1 Any Ideas? bye Matthias Matthias Krehl matthias.krehl@key-work.de