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[Jim Smith]

I experiened a problem with AOL and sessions on a projet that I was
working a year ago.  I narrowed down that the problem was associated with
the fact that AOL users IP address can change within a session.  I wound
up creating my own session handler.  A better work around probably
exists...

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Jeff Siegel wrote:

> Here's the situation. On my client's website, a user fills out several
> forms. Values get passed from form to form. Before the final submission
> of all of the data, it all gets "cleansed" by a number of data
> validation routines. All this is working fine. After submitting all of
> the data, it all gets dumped into session variables (i.e., the post
> variables get dumped into the session variables) and the "Thank You"
> page takes the session vars and performs various functions. Again, all
> of this is working correctly.
> When going from the final page to the "Thank You" I use the following:
>
> header("Location:$http://{$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']}/used_auto_parts_request
> /used_auto_parts_request_thanks.php?code=" . session_id());
>
> The "Thank You" page grabs the session ID and then performs its stuff.
>
> This works quite nicely *UNLESS*, it seems, someone is using AOL and
> it's built-in browser. Not every AOL user has a problem but some do.
> It's not obvious how to even troubleshoot this (of course...I don't have
> AOL so it's hard to test it). The only info I could get was that the
> user has AOL 7.0 which should have IE 5.5.
>
> Any clues/hints are greatly appreciated. Is something being overlooked?
>
> Jeff Siegel
>
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