Netscape 7 not setting session variable

[gonsman]

Hello all,

I just discovered a very bizare thing when using Netscape 7 on the PC. I have a page that sets a session variable, "account_id", and automatically redirects to another page wich checks for "account_id". All browsers other than Netscape 7 work fine, but Netscape does not set the session variable. What does work is when I set the session variable and don't redirect. It seems like there is a problem when setting the session and immediatley redirecting to another page (like there isn't enough time for the cookie to get set). If anybody knows how to delay the redirect by a second or two, or any other info, thank you very much.

-Sean

[gonsman]

OK, I feel dumb for posting a question and an answer in the same hour, but I figured out that the default security settings for Netscape 7 for some reason do not accept a cookie to be set if a redirect is followed immediately. So what I did is create a simple meta refresh of 3 seconds (instead of using header(Location🙂 and every thing is great. Thanks. I hope this helps some one else.

Here is the code i used to redirect:

echo'<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="3;URL=index.php?page=chk_order">';

where "3" is the seconds before redirecting and "index.php?page=chk_order" is the url.

-Sean