Re: Strange session problems. Please help.

I wish someone deletes this post! It's posted with date 2002! I'm gonna see it on the top of my messages for about a year now! I'm using the news server and not mailing list! "By Proxy" <byproxy1@optushome.com.au> wrote in message news:005301c23ee3$27ba1500$f4cea4cb@kelvn1.qld.optushome.com.au... > Hi. > > Does anybody know of any issues in PHP 4.0B2 regarding to the handling of > session variables on different networks? > > Here is the problem. I have written a user authentication system using > session variables. When the user logs in their name and pass are stored as > an associative array (with other details from a database). If the details > are invalid the user is booted back to the logon screen. The system worked > fine for everyone except myself and one other person who was on the same > network (optus@home network). > > The problem was that although the username and password were sent and stored > into the session variables, upon accessing another page the session > variables were not carried forward (although the session id was) and so I > was thrown back to the login. As I said, this was only true for users on the > optus@home network. Fpr anyone else it seemed to be fine. > > Identical code on a server running PGP 4.0.4pl1 worked universally. > I have been tearing my remaining hair out for days on this one now. Does > anyone have any suggestions (except for 'Upgrade PHP on the 4.0B2 server' or > 'move to a different server'. That, unfortunately is beyond my control :( ) > > Cheers > > Lee >