session & shell script

[juli]

Is it possible to use session in php when you have started in the same php file a background process by shell script? I couldn't.

I have a file login.php4 that looks like:
<?php
session_start();
session_register("user_name");

//then I start a process:
system("/usr/local/bin/camserv > /tmp/my_script.$$ &", $res);

//then I redirect a browser to another page
//which is also using session:
header('Location: http://xxx/test.php4[/url]');
exit;
?>

All this doesn't work as long as session is active at least in one of the connected pages.

Could you, please, help me?

[marcel]

hi,
This seems to be a cookies <->`Location:' problem.

I had have a similar problem with a Netsecape Enterprise Web server.
When the server send `Location:' header it discards all others headers ( including Cookies - sessions are ussing cookies).

I have heard about some simiilar problems in ISS and others Web servers.

With apache works well.

the solotion is to NOT use: header('Location:....')
insetead you can use a <META ... > HTML tag
something like:
< META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="0; URL=http://yourpage">

PM

[juli]

No, it's not any problem with header() function.
I've tryed to replace it with simple script on the same page like
echo "some text";
but it's henging too. The program execution is staying at the process call.

I really don't know what to do about this.
It must be some solution.