Re: Session variables in IE

From: James McIninch (james.mcininch.nospam_at_comcast.net)
Date: 06/26/04 

Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 18:00:41 GMT

Matt wrote:

> Why on earth would the security settings affect session variables?
> We're not setting a cookie here. I'm just trying to carry one session
> variable over from one page to the next. If the security settings in IE
> are set to "high", it doesn't work. What gives?

A session requires a cookie to store the session id. This not a PHP specific
thing. However, PHP does have a configuration option that forces the
session id to be appended to the URL rather than use a cookie (as a work
around to things not allowing cookies). 

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