Do both sites use the same php.ini?
The hostname is the same?

Is it a session cookie or a persistent cookie ( I think that a session
cookie depending on browser are not shared between http and https)
You can use the chrome "Developer Tools" (F12 on chrome) -> resources ->
Cookies to check this out.

Take a look at this page:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/session.configuration.php#ini.session.save-handler
Maybe they aren't sharing the same handler.


[]'s Danilo Clemente


On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
> It is mod_php running on apache/Linux and you are right, it is php that
> handles the sessions not Apache.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Robin
> On Jun 13, 2013 8:03 PM, "Danilo Nascimento" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hi Robin.
>>
>> It sounds like it is a platform dependent issue.
>> As far as i know the sessions storage are handle by AppServer/Plataform
>> and not by apache itself (Apache only pass the session cookies to the
>> plataform)
>>
>> What language/plataform are they using? (PHP, JavaEE, .Net, asp e etc?)
>> How does the apache respond to the requests ( A specific Handler,
>> mod_proxy, a CGI/FastCGI e etc) ?
>>
>>
>> []'s Danilo Nascimento
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I've got a client I'm doing some dev work for and they have a website
>>> that spans HTTP and HTTPS and the site needs to pass a session cookie
>>> between both. Ignore the fact that this isn't the best way to do
>>> things, it is a legacy site and there isn't rewrite budget.
>>>
>>> The problem I've got is that occasionally the two sides don't appear
>>> to be sharing the same session file on disk so values put in to the
>>> session on the HTTP side are not appearing on the HTTPS side and vise
>>> versa. It isn't consistent and I've not been able to pin down any
>>> pattern when it does it.
>>>
>>> The hosting company is a black box who haven't been able to offer much
>>> help. They say that there is no load balancer in place and that both
>>> the sites are running on the same Apache instance with no special
>>> config beyond the default.
>>>
>>> I've put a test script on both sides which displays the current
>>> session id and tries to store and retrieve values, the session ids
>>> match over the two sides so it isn't the browser doing something and
>>> messing those up.
>>>
>>> Can anyone suggest anything that could cause this? If the two sides
>>> were consistently unable to share things then I'd put it down to both
>>> using different session files on disk. If it were that a session
>>> created on HTTPS couldn't be seen by HTTP then it could be the secure
>>> flag, but that isn't set.
>>>
>>> Robin
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Pauldotcom mailing list
>>> [email protected]
>>> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom
>>> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
>>>
>>
>>
>>
_______________________________________________
Pauldotcom mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom
Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com

Reply via email to