Posted by Michael Fesser on 08/10/07 19:11

..oO(Rik)

>On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:32:45 +0200, Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Are you sure you really understood how sessions work? The browser's
>> only task is to keep the session ID, that's it. The handling of the
>> session itself - open, read, write, close - is done on the server.
>> Sessions are browser-independent, there's nothing to commit.
>
>Are you sure you understood how redirecting and sessions works?

Yes.

>[...]
>
>So, if a session is no longer needed, it's a wise idea to close is, just
>not very necessary in your normal garden variety of PHP scripts.

That's all correct - I was just picking on the "Opera's session might
not be commited before the redirect". Maybe it was just written in a
misleading way, but some problems simply cannot be related to a
particular browser.

And since I'm an Opera fan as well (since v3.60) ... ;-)

Micha

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