[support] No Cookies Being Sent with 5.1

Sat Feb 23 19:45:08 UTC 2008

Isn't it obvious?  I was writing from the future.

On my local system here, I have a buggy version of gpsd, which adjusts the 
date incorrectly during February.  I ran it yesterday to fix the time, and 
it messed up the date.

Luke

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, sasha karlik wrote:

> 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
> >   
> 