[Discuss] PHP Session solved -- sort of

[Darren Duncan]

At 11:43 AM -0700 6/23/06, Deryk Barker wrote:
>Thus spake Carl B. Constantine (duckwing at duckwing.ca):
>
>>  Isn't it always the case, you ask a question and then a few minutes
>>  later, you find the answer yourself. This is what happens when you work
>>  on other people's code ;-)
>>
>>  At any rate, I got the session to work correctly on my local system.
>>  Some of the code written by the previous programmer did some
>>  optimization that just didn't work in my environment. So I'm using the
>>  standard session_start() instead of his custom one while developing,
>>  then will go back for final.
>
>Be warned: browsers treat session variables differently.
>
>Especially - you guessed - IE. Some of my students had a nasty
>(non-)portability surprise this term vecause of IE and session
>variables.

I don't know if it is relevant, but I read on a website called 
phpfreaks that there is something you can do which helps workaround a 
bug in IE related to caching, which may be affecting you.

The workaround, according to them, is to issue a cache-control = 
private HTTP header on all your pages.  Eg:

   header( "Cache-Control: private" );

I have used this myself and haven't seemed to have any problems.  Of 
course, I never used IE yet in my testing either.

Since the problem is browser specific, I anticipate that this same 
workaround is useful no matter what server side language you are 
using.

-- Darren Duncan