Transparent id's are very irritating

[mr_tron]

I am having huge difficulties with the transparent id, for my sessions. I wanted to start using sessions on a site I am adminisering, but the session id does not get inserted automatically.

In the site, there is a frontpage showing 15 newsstories, each of them having links into the full story.
Since the "trans-id" function did not insert the sessid, I just put them in there myself, but I have noticed that sometimes, it comes up double, meaning that php has been inserting them:
/page.php?id=1263&sess_id=ffee9393885862787723845&sess_id=ffee9393885862787723845
This only happens very rarely.
Anyone got any good explanation on why this happens?

I have to break away from cookies as fast as possible, but without a transparent id that I can trust, it seems I have no choice but to continue using cookies 🙁

I have a couple of options left. The most interresting one, is to use "dns tricks", making the session id appear in the domainname like this: http://ffeer9900466482ttr8296.mysite.com/page.php
Has anyone tried this before? Was it alot of hassle?

I'm using php-4.2.2/apache-1.3.26 on a redhat 7.1 system.

[bladx]

This is probably happening because with session id's, you don't have to put it in yourself usually. It should pass the session variables and ID by itself provided that you put session_start(); at the start of the pages you want it to keep your session ID on. Does this help at all? Try just making a regular link to the story, without adding the session id to the url manually.

Example:

<?php

session_start();

// Rest of script here

// Example of a story link
<a href='page.php?id=1263'>story link</a>

?>