Re: [phplib] Re: NO COOKIES (was: [phplib] PHPLib and frames examples?) From: A.C.N.S. Information and News (infomail <email protected>)
Date: 01/30/01

After going from cookie to get mode and then back I am now getting the
session cookies. hehe. Like I said really wierd.
Thanks again for the help.

Chuck

----- Original Message -----
From: "A.C.N.S. Information and News" <infomail <email protected>>
To: "John Sutton" <john <email protected>>
Cc: <phplib <email protected>>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 2:17 PM
Subject: [phplib] Re: NO COOKIES (was: [phplib] PHPLib and frames examples?)

> I have my browser setup to warn on incoming cookies. If I visit any site
> but mine (that uses cookies) I get the warning. With mine there is no
> warning. I've just reset phplib to cookie mode and still nothing.
>
> Chuck
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Sutton" <john <email protected>>
> To: "A.C.N.S. Information and News" <infomail <email protected>>
> Cc: <phplib <email protected>>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 1:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [phplib] PHPLib and frames examples?
>
>
> > I always resort to sniffing the port to see if the browser is *really*
> doing
> > what I think it should be doing! Nine times out of ten, it's not ;-(
You
> > really need to find out if the browser *is* sending the cookie on the
> second
> > hit. Cookie domain/path?
> >
> > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, A.C.N.S. Information and News wrote:
> > > Well, have got everything working now.
> > >
> > > The only problem is that phplib only works with get and not cookies.
> What's
> > > really weird is that the server is an Apache server on Unix not an IIS
> > > server. Thus far I have only seen IIS servers have this problem. Any
> > > ideas? I had initially set cookies as the default functionality in
the
> > > local.inc file but the switched to get to test if it would work that
> way. I
> > > can get the initial sid in cookie mode but then lose it after I click
on
> a
> > > link and a cookie is never sent. In get mode it works fine.
> > >
> > > Check www.acns-online.com/shop/index.php3 to verify.
> > >
> > > Chuck
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "John Sutton" <john <email protected>>
> > > To: "A.C.N.S. Information and News" <infomail <email protected>>
> > > Cc: <phplib <email protected>>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 12:16 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [phplib] PHPLib and frames examples?
> > >
> > >
> > > > Yes, it's a complete bitch because AKAIK each frame will submit the
> same
> > > > session cookie, there is no general way to identify which frame has
> > > submitted
> > > > which submission, there is no guaranteed *order* in which
> > > > a browser will make the multiple submissions involved when it loads
> the
> > > frames
> > > > in a frameset, and (the real killer) the submissions can run
> concurrently.
> > > >
> > > > Careful analysis and coding can get you over the first three
hurdles,
> the
> > > real
> > > > killer that I encountered was dealing with the concurency problem.
I
> > > solved
> > > > this by overriding get_lock() and release_lock() in session.inc (in
an
> old
> > > > version of phplib, nowadays in ct_sql.inc and friends):
> > > >
> > > > // Overriding these two functions renders $database_lock_semaphore
> > > > // redundant.
> > > > function get_lock() {
> > > > $lockstr = 'WDBA/'.config_info('database').'/'.$this->id;
> > > > while (!mysql_result($this->db->query("select
> > > get_lock('$lockstr',5)"),0,0))
> > > > ;
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > function release_lock() {
> > > > $lockstr = 'WDBA/'.config_info('database').'/'.$this->id;
> > > > $this->db->query("select release_lock('$lockstr')");
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > The problem with the default implementation of these functions is
that
> > > there was
> > > > no easy way to get the sessionid into $database_lock_semaphore. At
> least,
> > > that
> > > > was true when they were in session.inc. Maybe it's possible now
that
> they
> > > have
> > > > been moved into ct_sql.inc?
> > > >
> > > > The key is that you must lock the db with the sessionid so that
> multiple
> > > > concurrent hits from a frameset cannot interfere with each other.
> > > >
> > > > YMMV!
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there anyone out there that has some examples of using phplib
> with
> > > frames? If so could you please send 'em my way. I'm having
> unbelievable
> > > problems with getting phplib to work correctly with frames. Thanks.
> > > > >
> > > > > Chuck
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > >
> > > > ***************************************************
> > > > John Sutton
> > > > SCL Computer Services
> > > > URL http://www.scl.co.uk/
> > > > Tel. +44 (0) 1239 621021
> > > > ***************************************************
> > --
> >
> > ***************************************************
> > John Sutton
> > SCL Computer Services
> > URL http://www.scl.co.uk/
> > Tel. +44 (0) 1239 621021
> > ***************************************************
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