Location not working

[shelley]

I'm having problem with sessions & the Location command. After the header("Location: I lose all the registered Sessions. So, I tried to pass the Sessions ID with the Location. The Location statement works sometimes and not others. I'm using Zend Developer, ADODB, PHP 4.2.1, smarty on a Windows 2000 Server. If anyone has any idea would appreciate.

Here is a test program I ran to find out if it was something in my Code or a problem. It sometimes works and other times not.

include_once("defaults.inc"); /// Setup Defaults
include_once("config.inc"); /// Load Includes
$SESS_LIFE = ini_get ('session.gc_maxlifetime');
include_once("conn.inc"); /// ADODB Connection
include_once("ecom_errors.inc"); /// Error Handler
session_start();
$sess_key=session_id();
$access = 'grant';
$page_name='page1.php';
$login='shelley';
$HTTP_SESSION_VARS['saccess'] = $access;
$HTTP_SESSION_VARS['susername'] = 'FirstN LastN';
$HTTP_SESSION_VARS['suserid'] = $login;
$HTTP_SESSION_VARS['suseris'] = 'Cust';
$HTTP_SESSION_VARS['spage'] = $page_name;
header("Location: http://localhost/PHP/page2.php?K=$sess_key");
flush();

[m0nk3y]

hey there, there is something wrong with the sessions, you dont have to pass the session variable through the header() function and can pick it up using session tags instead.

so basically, there is something wrong with the session settings in the php.ini file, i think!

[shelley]

Thanks, It took me a while to realize that I dont' think it is the Sessions. Because:

When the header("Locations is executed. The Sessions are cleared. I can see the Sessions HTTP and _sessions with the Zend debugger when I reach the next page(if I do). The Sessions get clobered somewhere before the target page. And also because the Location: is not behaving properly(sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't) with no coding changes at all it decides to stop working(gives errors and desn't go to the target page).

Shelley