[Phplib-users] Cookie crumbs!

[Lindsay H. <fmo...@fm...>]

I'm having a weird problem here which appears to be related to phplib
database (not native php4) session management, and is dependent on the
version of apache I'm running but _not_ the version of php4.

I have a lot of pages here which do session management using mysql
databases, phplib and php4.  Everything works as expected with the following
software combination:

apache:         1.3.26
php:            4.3.0
phplib:         7.4-pre2

If I switch to apache 2.0.43, using php4 as a dso compiled for it (same php
version, almost the same configure options, same php.ini file, same phplib
files), phplib will no longer issue cookies to track sessions.

Cookies are working.  I can set a cookie using <meta http-equiv ...>, or I
can set an arbitrary cookie using php with setcookie(), and I can read the
cookies on the server side with php using the $_COOKIE global array, but I
can't get any cookie-based session tracking to the MySQL databases set up
for this purpose.  Other features, including other database access and php4
functionality, seem to be working OK.

I'm using mozilla to test, and have it set to ask permission before
accepting a cookie, and when the server is apache 1.3.26 I always get the
usual cookie question, but when the server is apache 2.0.43 I get no cookie
notice, and phplib apparently falls back on GET variables, and since I have
register_globals off, and don't necessarily accept a GET session id, I end
up with lost sessions.

The only things changed are the version of apache and the specific php
module used, which was compiled separately for each apache version.
Otherwise, everything is the same.  I'm using different httpd.conf files, of
course, but mod_usertrack is in both of them and as I said, cookies are
working, just not phplib session management cookies.

Has anyone else hit this, and found a solution?  Is this perhaps a thread
support problem?

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