[imp] php session problem

Ian Firla ian at deepsky.com
Wed Feb 19 09:57:36 PST 2003


On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> Quoting hui at student.dlut.edu.cn:
>
> >     When I login in my imp, I can see
> > https://mailb.dlut.edu.cn/horde/imp/mailbox.php?
> > Horde=1a05c19ca5e8fefe4b7a493f0b26602f&mailbox=INBOX in the url of the
> > ie.
> >     But if I close the ie without logout. I can still access my mailbox
> > using the url. I know the reason is the session is still alive in the
> > sever. How can I configure the server to make the session dead when user
> > closing the ie?
>
> You can't.
>
> You can tell PHP not to accept URL-based sessions, if you want.

But that means forcing users to use cookies and unless you have your
browsers set to delete all cookies when it's closed, the session cookie
remains.

Ian



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