Personal Computing and Development by Dag J. Nedrelid

IE and PHP sessions

IE would not recognize the session at all. IE did not block the cookies either, and I tested the SID constant thoroughly, it was not getting populated either.

The problem
In the same browser application I had open – just in another tab – I was logged into a HTTP AUTH session on another site, though under the same domain.

Of some reason IE seems to mix up the processes when opening up different tabs or windows through the same opened application. This way it doesn’t seem to properly keep track of which sessions belong to which processes.

The solution
Exit the IE application and start a new one. If I open up my session based website in the first tab, it works. It also works fine after opening the HTTP AUTH website in a second tab. But I don’t know how stable this is.

Just another IE annoyance…