Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 07/01/89 11:55

stclaus@tiscalinet.it wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm currently experiencing a problem using sessions under php 4.4.2. I
> store variables and objects inside session variables, and all works
> well under php 5.x, but when I upload those pages to my hosting
> (tiscali italia business) the whole site and session variables seem to
> work at the beginning, but after a variable number of request
> (sometimes the second, sometimes the fifteenth page requested) all the
> site get stuck, every request from the site domain 'hangs up' from this
> moment.
>
> But the site isn't really stuck, any request to a page (plain html or
> php+html) that not use sessions (without session_start()) works well
> and these type of pages are sent to browser.
>
> If I make requests from another browser, but from the same host, or if
> I switch to another client host, a new session is created, I can
> navigate through a few pages and after some requests I experience the
> problem again.
>
> Notice that after about thirty minutes (a sort of timeout?) I can
> navigate again from this host+browser.
>
> So, after these tests, I'm pretty sure that the problem is caused by
> some stranges behaviours of sessions, but I don't know if I didn't
> consider some hosting provider's php.ini session settings, or if it
> could even be a bug or an unexpectedly weird handling of session
> variables.
>
> Thanks everyone for any clue you would give me to resolve this problem.
>
> -- Lorenzo
>

Did you try asking your hosting provider? If you're having this
problem, chances are others are (or have been), also.

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