Storing a Imap connection in a session?

Anon

Hi all,

I've noticed, after many couple of hours, that you can't store a imap stream in a session. Is this true?

Short example:

page1.php:

<?
session_start();

$connection = imap_open("{localhost:143}INBOX", "imaptester", "imaptester");

$s = serialize($connection); // doesn't matter?
session_register("s");

header("Location: page2.php");
?>

page2.php:

session_start();

$connection = unserialize($s);

$check = imap_mailboxmsginfo($connection);

if($check) {
print "Date: " . $check->Date ." \n" ;
print "Driver: " . $check->Driver ." \n" ;
print "Mailbox: " . $check->Mailbox ." \n" ;
print "Messages: ". $check->Nmsgs ." \n" ;
print "Recent: " . $check->Recent ." \n" ;
print "Unread: " . $check->Unread ." \n" ;
print "Deleted: " . $check->Deleted ." \n" ;
print "Size: " . $check->Size ." \n" ;
} else {
print "imap_check() failed: ".imap_last_error(). " \n";
}

imap_close($mbox);

Results in:

Warning: Unable to find stream pointer in /home/httpd/htdocs/mail/test_conn2.php on line 7
imap_check() failed:

If you print($connection) you get "1". But there doesn't seem to be a stream! HELP!