Posted by frizzle on 03/01/06 14:05

competitions@when-it-matters.com wrote:
> I notice that others have had this problem, after scanning Google, but
> I couldn't find any solution.
>
> I have tested my PHP code on both Mac's & PC's and on several browsers
> (Firefox, Safari, IE etc etc), with several operating systems.
> Everything works fine, except ...
>
> On a couple of Windows XP SP2 PC's session variables in IE6 seem from
> time to time to get 'lost'.
>
> More specifically:
>
> I start my session on every page. I get the user to log on, which sets
> the appropriate session variables. When I access a couple of
> *particular* pages (not all pages) - the first time I access them after
> logging on, the session is lost. If I then log back in for a second
> time (without closing down the browser) the session variables are
> re-set and then if I access those *particular* pages again - the
> session is fine!!!!
>
> Now, as mentioned this works fine on 99.99% of browsers, platforms,
> whatever - but on the occasional IE6 XP SP2 set-up this occurs. I've
> played with the IE6 security settings (although I can't believe this
> would make any difference to server side stuff - I was clutching at
> straws!)
>
> If anybody has any ideas, experiences etc etc - then please let me
> know, as this does seem a slightly bizarre problem, to say the least!
>
> Many thanks in advance!

Anything to do with session_write_close() ?
Don't know, haven't used it myself (yet) but i heard session vars got
lost on Mac if one didn't use this. (Not in your case, but you can
always try)

Frizzle.

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