[support] No Cookies Being Sent with 5.1

Sat Feb 23 16:05:33 UTC 2008

What's up with your system clock?
Time stamp says 10:54pm at 8am.

Luke wrote:
> I decided to go ahead and test the PHP session handling capability outside 
> of Drupal, using lynx as the web browser.
>
> I started with this:
>
> <?php
>    session_start();
>    if (!isset($_SESSION['count'])) {
>        $_SESSION['count'] = 0;
>    } else {
>        $_SESSION['count'] += 32;
>    }
>
> echo "<html><body>{$_SESSION['count']}</body></html>";
>    ?>
>
> As I expected, not only did lynx receive a cookie, but the page 
> incremented by 32 every time I reloaded it, as one would expect from this 
> code.
>
> Okay, so not a basic sessions problem between PHP and Lynx.
>
> So then I moved on...  I pulled the INI changes from the settings.php 
> file, and added them to the mix:
>
> ini_set('arg_separator.output',     '&amp;');
> ini_set('magic_quotes_runtime',     0);
> ini_set('magic_quotes_sybase',      0);
> ini_set('session.cache_expire',     200000);
> ini_set('session.cache_limiter',    'none');
> ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime',  2000000);
> ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime',   200000);
> ini_set('session.use_only_cookies', 1);
> ini_set('session.use_trans_sid',    0);
> ini_set('url_rewriter.tags',        '');
>
> Installing those options made no difference--the cookie was still sent to 
> lynx, and the number incremented.
>
> Lastly, I added this, also from settings.php:
>
> if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])) {
>   $domain = '.'. preg_replace('`^www.`', '', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
>   // Per RFC 2109, cookie domains must contain at least one dot other than the
>   // first. For hosts such as 'localhost', we don't set a cookie domain.
>   if (count(explode('.', $domain)) > 2) {
>     ini_set('session.cookie_domain', $domain);
>   }
> }
>
> and boom: no cookie, no incrementing number.
>
> So I commented out the identical section in settings.php, as the comments 
> therein suggest, with no joy.
>
> I then tried manually setting the cookie domain, but still no joy.
>
> Back now to square one.
>
> The only thing different between what I ran and what Drupal is running, 
> seems to be the following directive:
>
> ini_set('session.save_handler',     'user');
>
> I would not expect that to be the problem, but my knowledge is limited.
>
> Luke
>   