Juergen Wind wrote: >Travis Doherty wrote: > > >>By default the session cookie expires when the browseris closed. >> >> >this is not always true: f.e. FF requires *all* open windows to be closed to >forget that session. > > Personally I think this does make sense. I fully expect the browser to maintain cookies "Until it is closed" -- If I have closed one tab that had set a cookie, re-opening that URL in a new window/tab should still cause the browser to send in my cookie. > > >>If the browser refuses the cookie, sessions won't work anyway. >> >> >again: this is not always true. Only if "session.use_only_cookies = 1" >otherwise the session id can alternatively propagate using the query string >or hidden input fields. >(if "session.use_trans_sid = 1") > > That is correct - as I mentioned "(unless its in the URL...)" ... It's kind of weird to pass sessions through URLs though, I prefer clean, simple URLs such as www.example.com/resource/topic.html, instead of something like www.example.com/?x=resource&y=1113&this=44&PHPSESSID=123124124124124&bookmarkable=not_really Travis -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
