Re: NT 4.0.6 session weirdness

Try this. Page 1: <?php session_start(); $PHPSESSID = session_id(); $SID = "PHPSESSID=$PHPSESSID"; $userid = 'valid'; session_register('userid'); header("Location: http://$SERVER_NAME/protectedpage.php?$SID"); exit(); ?> Page 2: (protectedpage.php); <?php session_start(); $PHPSESSID = session_id(); $SID = "PHPSESSID=$PHPSESSID"; if( !isset($HTTP_SESSION_VARS['userid']) ) { $msg = urlencode('Must Login!'); header("Location: http://$SERVER_NAME/loginpage.php?msg=$msg&$SID"); exit(); } ?> -- Chris Lee lee@mediawaveonline.com "Hank Marquardt" <hmarq@yerpso.net> wrote in message news:20011017153342.A45549@hermes.yerpso.net... > Of course I didn't state the problem ... > > The $userid session variable isn't passed, is 'unset' and thus always fails to authenticate the protected page, bouncing to login. > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 04:21:07PM -0500, Hank Marquardt wrote: > > I saw someone else with this problem and no answer, yet I saw sniper blow away as "Bogus" when reported as a bug(13687) -- > > > > Warning -- I don't do much NT work so a configuration problem could be, but session propogation seems flaky on 4.0.6 CGI NT -- > > > > The particulars are like this: > > > > Page 1: > > <?php > > session_start(); > > session_register("userid"); > > $userid="valid"; > > header("location:protectedpage.php"); > > exit(); > > ?> > > > > Page 2: (protectedpage.php); > > <?php > > session_start(); > > session_register("userid"); > > if(!isset($userid)) { > > $msg=urlencode("Must Login!"); > > header("location:loginpage.php?msg=$msg"); > > exit(); > > } > > ?> > > > > Most of the time this just plain doesn't work -- even though it works on every *nix box I have (various flavors of Linux and BSD) -- > > > > Anyone else seeing this? ... BTW, as simple session test works fine: > > > > <?php > > session_start(); > > session_register("count"); > > echo "You've visited ".$count++."times!<br>"; > > ?> > > > > That will keep incrementing and displaying a counter on refresh, it seems to be the page transfer/header stuff that's fubared. > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > -- > Hank Marquardt <hank@yerpso.net> > http://web.yerpso.net > > Web & Database Development in PHP, MySQL/PostgreSQL > Small Office Networking Solutions - Debian GNU/Linux & FreeBSD > PHP Instructor - International Webmasters Assn./HTML Writers Guild > *** Beginning PHP -- Starts November 5, 2001 > *** See http://www.hwg.org/services/classes >