Re: [PHP4BETA] Session Problems - New session ID's being created in ERROR.

On Mon, 29 May 2000, August Zajonc wrote:

> It appears that there is no way to break PHP of the bad habit of sending
> along the path with the cookies it sets. This makes it close to useless for
> any serious work without some ugle work arounds.
> 
> For example, setting a session in the /r/ directory sets a cookie with path
> /r. What this means is when you go to another page in the /a directory,
> whamo, you get a new session. Yuch.
> 
> If you think
> session.cookie_path = /
> 
> might do the trick, it appears cookie_path doesn't affect much of anything.
> 
> I've seen this problem crop up a number of places, include Sessions problem
> earlier today, though most people don't finger the culprit immediatly.
> 
> I'm hoping I'm missing something and this is some easy fix :)

    The fix is in CVS. You can recompile PHP with the attached
    patch applied and it should fix your problem.

    - Sascha

Index: session.c
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RCS file: /repository/php4/ext/session/session.c,v
retrieving revision 1.141
retrieving revision 1.142
diff -u -r1.141 -r1.142
--- session.c	2000/05/26 13:02:11	1.141
+++ session.c	2000/05/29 15:07:19	1.142
@@ -664,7 +664,7 @@
 		strcat(cookie, PS(cookie_domain));
 	}
 
-	sapi_add_header(cookie, len, 0);
+	sapi_add_header(cookie, strlen(cookie), 0);
 }
 
 static ps_module *_php_find_ps_module(char *name PSLS_DC)