With IE, it's not a quirk. It's a feature. On Thursday 16 March 2006 3:31 pm, Jay Blanchard wrote: > [snip] > I created a small bannering program. It works great in Firefox. But I > have a problem with IE. > If I place the banner on a different domain than the bannering program, > Ex: > > www.bannerserver.com > > www.otherserver.com has img tag calling from www.bannerserver.com > > > I use a session to keep track of the banner that is displayed, have even > tried using cookies directly. > > Works great in firefox, problem with IE is first time vising > www.otherserver.com, clicking on the img does not work, apparently, the > session was never start/recorded when retrieving the image. However, if > I go back to www.otherserver.com, it then works fine, I can go anywhere, > as long as I don't close the browser, www.otherserver.com works. > > Why would IE not be recording the session info on the first visit? > Firefox does it just fine. > > Anyone run into this? > [/snip] > > From http://www.php.net/session > [quote] > When using session_start() to begin a session this session will remain > open until the page has finished loading or it is explicitly terminated. > > You can lose the session however if the the page contains a reference to > <img src=""> with name and id references (which may be used if the image > is referencing a dynamic image, called by javascript) This seems to > casue IE6 to refresh the page session id and hence loose the session. > [/quote] -- Joe Henry www.celebrityaccess.com jhenry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php