Problems with PHPSESSID

Teto

I'm trying to hide PHPSESSID thats added to the end of every link on my page. To do that I changed session.use_trans_sid from 1 to 0, to make session ids transparent. However, that really screwed up the site I'm working on...

The site I'm working on requires a user to login, when logging in the users session id and ip adress is stored in a database. The user is the continuously authenticated by confirming his session id and ip adress against those stored in the database.

As soon as I set use_trans_sid to 0, my loggin stopped working. Oh, I can login... but as soon as I do anything after logging in I get booted directly back to the loggin page.

I'm using an apache webbserver and I've tried both php 4.3.3 and 4.2.0 with the same result.

zingbats

did u use http://www.domain.com/login.php or login.php

Teto

All links on my site are directed to ./index.php, not http://domain.com/index.php

Weedpacket

PHP uses cookies to store the session ID by default; if the browser doesn't accept cookies PHP will resort to putting the session ID in the URL. If you turn trans_sid off, then you will have to put the SID in the URL yourself. So, in the situation where:

(a) the client is not accepting cookies, and
(b) the session ID is not in the URL, then

the session ID won't be passed back to PHP.

zingbats

Try http://domain.com/index.php

Teto

I've tried setting use_trans_sid to 0 and turning on cookies, but it didn't make any difference. Still get booted back to the loggin screen.