[FX.php List] Do session always work?

[Jonathan Schwartz]

Steve...Do you mean that there is no problem as long as code is 
included to test for cookies being turned off in the browser and 
implementing the URL using GET (that Erik and Kevin 
suggested)..or...that they work without going so?

I only had a handful of problem users and I haven't yet determined 
the real cause of their problems.  The "cookies off" idea is just a 
theory at this point.

Thanks

Jonathan







>Jonathan,
>
>I've also had no problems with using PHP sessions when the browser has
>cookies disabled.
>
>I recently built a system which relies heavily on session information, so
>I did quite a bit of testing with a 'user' environment which had as much
>security as I could apply (no Javascript, no Java, no cookies, pop-up
>blocker etc etc) and had no problems with my session information being
>available...
>
>Cheers
>Steve
>
>>  On 27/10/06 2:59 PM, "Jonathan Schwartz" <jonathan at eschwartz.com>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>  > Hi Folks,
>>  >
>>  > I'm in the process of working through trouble spots from my last
>>  project.
>>  >
>>  > The solution relied on sessions.  Some users couldn't get past the
>>  > login, which used session data to advance to the next page.
>>  >
>>  > I know that cookies can be turned off in the browser.
>>  >
>>  > What pitfalls can occur with sessions?  Or, are there other areas to
>>  explore?
>>  >
>>  > Thanks
>>  >
>>  > Jonathan
>>
>>  PHP should normally handle client-side cookies being disabled by
>>  passing the
>>  session ID in the URL (as a GET request) to a server-side cookie.
>>
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