Where is session storage?

[yuan]

May anyone tell me where is session storage??

[tsinka]

Hi,

the standard setting is that the session data is stored in the default temporary directory (like e.g. /tmp).

Create a little

<?PHP
phpinfo();
?>

script and search for a line session.save_path

This line shows you the path where session data is stored.

If you wanted to know how this session stuff works ... find some info here

Thomas

[yuan]

Thanks for reply and sorry for one more question.

Clients side have anyway to read the data store in session?
like cookie can read from Temporary Internet Files

[tsinka]

Hope I understood your question ...

On client side only one cookie is stored, the session cookie containing the session id (but only if session.use_cookies is enabled in php.ini, otherwise you'll append the session id as get parameter to the url which will be done automatically -with some exceptions- if session.use_trans_sid is enabled in php.ini).

The session data itself is stored on the server itself and only used on the server side. The client can't see the session data as long as you don't log in to the server and view the session file for a given session. But that's only possible if the access rights of the session files are set so that anyone can read the files.

Thomas