Sessions across browser instances?

[Kevin Thorpe]

I've hit a problem with sessions.

If I have a document relying on sessions which has a link target=_blank
then the new window inherits the session from its parent (in IE).

However, if I embed an instance of IE in a VBA form in Excel and click
on the link, the new window doesn't inherit the session.

I have no idea why this should happen at all since both instances of the
browser have access to the same cookies.

Can anyone tell me how to inherit a session like that? I've tried
passing over $PHPSESSID without any success (PHPSESSID is set correctly,
but $_SESSION is empty)

[Andy Hassall]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 12:40:59 +0000, Kevin Thorpe <ke***@pricetrak.com> wrote:

I've hit a problem with sessions.

If I have a document relying on sessions which has a link target=_blank
then the new window inherits the session from its parent (in IE).

However, if I embed an instance of IE in a VBA form in Excel and click
on the link, the new window doesn't inherit the session.

I have no idea why this should happen at all since both instances of the
browser have access to the same cookies.

Can anyone tell me how to inherit a session like that? I've tried
passing over $PHPSESSID without any success (PHPSESSID is set correctly,
but $_SESSION is empty)

Use stored cookies (with a lifetime set) instead of session cookies, perhaps?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/functio...kie-params.php

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[Savut]

use session_id()

Savut

"Kevin Thorpe" <ke***@pricetrak.com> wrote in message
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I've hit a problem with sessions.

If I have a document relying on sessions which has a link target=_blank
then the new window inherits the session from its parent (in IE).

However, if I embed an instance of IE in a VBA form in Excel and click
on the link, the new window doesn't inherit the session.

I have no idea why this should happen at all since both instances of the
browser have access to the same cookies.

Can anyone tell me how to inherit a session like that? I've tried
passing over $PHPSESSID without any success (PHPSESSID is set correctly,
but $_SESSION is empty)

[Kevin Thorpe]

Andy Hassall wrote:

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 12:40:59 +0000, Kevin Thorpe <ke***@pricetrak.com> wrote:

I've hit a problem with sessions.

If I have a document relying on sessions which has a link target=_blank
then the new window inherits the session from its parent (in IE).

However, if I embed an instance of IE in a VBA form in Excel and click
on the link, the new window doesn't inherit the session.

I have no idea why this should happen at all since both instances of the
browser have access to the same cookies.

Can anyone tell me how to inherit a session like that? I've tried
passing over $PHPSESSID without any success (PHPSESSID is set correctly,
but $_SESSION is empty)

Use stored cookies (with a lifetime set) instead of session cookies, perhaps?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/functio...kie-params.php

Yup, that'll probably work. I've found out that browsers spawned from an
existing browser window all share the same data space including
temporary cookies. However spawning a new browser from within a VBA
embedded browser actually starts a new instance of the browser. As to
why I guess I'll have to ask Billy Boy.