Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 04/26/07 11:38

Vince Morgan wrote:
> "Jonno" <jonattree@gnosis-consultancy.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:1177501291.323146.24910@s33g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
>> Hi
>>
>> I am having a problem with session vars being propagated between pages
>> on this site:
>> http://www.meettheancestors.com/sessiontest/index.php
>> If you enter any user id and password and click Log In (no actual
>> validation is performed), and then move around the other pages and/or
>> keep refreshing the pages it will eventually display something that is
>> incorrect i.e. saying your logged in when you aren't or vice versa.
>> The exact same code here http://ccgi.gnosis.free-online.co.uk/index.php
>> works fine implying a problem with the first PHP installation.
>> Here is the code for the 3 files:
>> =========== index.php =============
> I don't know if the following like is related to this but the fact that
> there are two servers involved, and that one is certainly behaving
> differently to the other certainly makes me wonder.
> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=18404
>
> The last two lines on the page;
> [quote]
> This bug has been resolved since Oct 2002 (pread/pwrite issues on
> Linux). Please upgrade.
> [/quote]
>
> I guess if the engine at "meettheansestors" has not been upgraded, and is
> running on Linux, the above may very well apply.
> There has been a bug with the behaviour described by the OP, unless I am not
> reading it correctly.
> Vince
>
>

That's a possibility - it sure looks close. I wonder what version
they're running? Some hosts only upgrade once a decade, and only then
if forced :-)

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