php-windows Digest 20 Mar 2005 18:08:34 -0000 Issue 2614
Topics (messages 25777 through 25778):
Re: Curly and annoying. Session vars and uniquely identifying a browser window.
25777 by: Rasmus Lerdorf
Mcrypt installation problems
25778 by: Joakim Ling
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Ross Honniball wrote:
Hi all,
I use the php script name as a key in the $_SESSION array to store
script specific variables.
The problem with this approach is that if a user fires up multiple
browser windows, they share the same $_SESSION data.
So then if they use the same script in two different browser windows, I
get this cross-pollution of $_SESSION variable states.
The dream solution to this would be to have some ability to uniquely
identify a clients browser window and incorporate this into the
$_SESSION key along with the script name.
Does anyone know if this is possible, or alternatively another way of
avoiding the issues I am faced with?
You can't distinguish a request from one browser window from another.
The browser simply doesn't send anything that distinguishes that. So,
if they start one window, hit your site and get to some point in it,
then they open another window from that same browser instance and copy
the current URL over, that next request is indistinguishable from them
just refreshing the first window. You simply need to build your
applications such that this isn't an issue. The solution may be to
trigger off of some some of entry point, so that they can actually have
multiple concurrent sessions from the same browser instance, but each
browser window has to enter through a given entry point where you issue
a token that your propogate in the URL itself. That way you can key
your session data off of that URL token and not rely exclusively on the
session cookie since that cookie is browser-instance-wide.
-Rasmus
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Hi
Where can I find a mcrypt library that does work with php 5.0.3 IIS6?
thanks
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