Yes, it will help it. It has to do with drupal's session save handler not being invoked properly.
Here's a link to an example problem.
I'm not 100% sure the upgrade will solve your problem, since I don't know that drupal has been tested with Lynx, but it's definitely worth a try and a lot better than changing your PHP rev, as you've already pointed out.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Luke Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 9:50 PM To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] No Cookies Being Sent with 5.1
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Metzler, David wrote:
Not that it helps you much, but just so you don't get too bad of an impression with Drupal's stability...
I'm pretty happy with it so far--it just doesn't work with lynx, which unfortunately I require.
The session based bug, if I recall correctly had to do with particular versions of PHP, I think it was PHP 5.2.x (that's where I ran into
it).
Bugger. I have 5.2.1. Now that, I really can't upgrade.
I realize that this may be an unanswerable question, but if you know: will upgrading Drupal make much of a difference, if the session issue is the fault of PHP itself?
I guess I should attempt to prove that by writing something to test sessions.
Luke