[RESOLVED] Sessions across multiple subdomains on different servers

[perrohunter]

hey there !

In my imagination it sound kinda imposible, but I've read that it's possible so im going to ask you guys anyway.

I'd like to move the session of a user across various subdomains, the detail is that those subdomains are on different servers.

sub1.example.com is on Happy land and sub2.example.com is on wonderland

however they are both under the same domain (example.com) so they can share cookies, I already tried setting the session cookie domain to ".example.com" but when I move from one server to another the session is completely empty.

I know that sessions work in a way that they stay stored within the server, so to me it's completely sensless to think that the session would magically go from one server to another using only a cookie. Is there any work around that you suggest?

I could get the hash and then have sub2.example.com server ask via SOAP or something sub1.example server to give him the data, but then separating those servers to lower the load on them would render useless :/

any ideas or comments ?

thanks !🙂

[bradgrafelman]

Have you considered storing sessions in a DB that all servers can access?

[perrohunter]

Now you talk about it, I could store em on a Memory Table :3 thanks for the tip

Any other workarounds ?

thansk !

[bradgrafelman]

You could also consider encrypting the stored data and keeping it in a client-side cookie, but that leads to other considerations (bandwidth, security, integrity of data, etc.).

Unless some guru (e.g. Weedpacket) can come along and prove me wrong by offering a better method, I would think that storing the data in a database server/cluster accessible by all servers involved would be a simple and efficient solution.

[perrohunter]

Aight, this will force me to keep a better track of my session data, else ill use JSON n_n

I think im going to go with the DB for all the servers, with memory tables for speed

thanks for the advice !