Re: [Phplib-users] Cookie crumbs!

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

I've been able to reproduce this on a non-production system so I can poke at
the problem at my convenience.  I've determined that it's apparently
_not_ thread related.  If no one has a solution on this, I'll try to find
the time to track it down in phplib - when I get a round tuit.  Anyone got
any spare round tuits?

Thus spake Lindsay Haisley on Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 02:34:59PM CST
> 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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