StevenOliver Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 I'm trying to learn the proper workaround to enable Sessions when visitors have their cookies disabled. When I create a PHP session page with ini_set("session.use_trans_sid", 1) and then disable my browser cookies and view browser source code, I see what I expect: a hidden input appended like this: <input type="hidden" name="PHPSESSID" value="abc123456789reallylongstring1234" /> It seems to work (sessions without cookies!). However, I don't see the long URL query strings that I used to see when I experimented with this 10 years ago, and I don't see the long PHPSESSID value appended to all the page links, and I don't see dozens of session variables appended as hidden form inputs. Rather, I just see the one PHPSESSID hidden input described above. Is this because all the session variables are stored on the server itself, and all the server needs is that one single long PHPSESSID value? Or, am I doing it wrong? :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 Sounds like something is wrong. What's the full source of one of these pages? You do know that this is a substantial security risk, right? People who disable their cookies are used to websites not working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginerjm Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 And who/what told you to not use cookies??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenOliver Posted April 4, 2019 Author Share Posted April 4, 2019 15 hours ago, requinix said: People who disable their cookies are used to websites not working. I love this! This made my day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taquitosensei Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 I had a boss who had an 80/20 rule. Program for the 80%. He would have told me not to worry about people with their cookies disabled. Make sure it works for everyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barand Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 Pretty much like estimating how long it will take to write a program The first 80% takes 80% of the time. The last 20% takes another 80% of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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