wierd problem with session

[Anon]

Hi,

I used session in a website to track the user. Things are working fine, but I noticed a little wierd thing: whenever the page is first pulled up, PHPSESSID value would be appended to the URL in the location bar and other relative addresses in the page. Once I click any of the links in the page to visit them, the PHPSESSID query string then would go away. It doesn't actually do any harm, but I am just wondering why this happens. I checked php.ini file, which only set the include path and upload_max_filesize, '--enable-trans-sid' is also set, even checked the java script in the page. So what could cause this problem?

Any input would be most appreciated.

[hometoast]

Thats exactly what it is supposed to do. The first time you visit the page/site there is no cookie so php tacks on the sessid to the urls... upon moving to another page, the cookie gets set and php no longer needs that sessid in the querystring.

I dont have php on this machine here at school but look for cookie settings under the session topic in php.ini.
But there really isnt a problem, it's doing exactly what its supposed to do.