note 81641 modified in ref.session by danbrown

There's a bug in Internet explorer in which sessions do not work if the name of the server is not a valid name. For example...if your server is called web_server (_ isn't a valid character), if you call a page which uses sessions like http://web_server/example.php your sessions won't work but sessions will work if you call the script like this [IP NUMBER]/example.php --was-- Thank you M$!!! Realy, thanks a lot for hours and hours and days to find why my PHP sessions worked in firefox but didn't work in internet explorer... "There's a bug in Internet explorer in which sessions do not work if the name of the server is not a valid name. For example...if your server is called web_server (_ isn't a valid character), if you call a page which uses sessions like http://web_server/example.php your sessions won't work but sessions will work if you call the script like this [IP NUMBER]/example.php" http://php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php