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Meta Refresh And Variables.


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Hi everyone, thanks for taking the time to read this.Anyway, I have been working on a side project for the past year. At two different points in the program a meta refresh reopens the current windowand re-sizes the window. It all works with no problem on hostmonster, but I triedto give the program to a friend of mine that has their site hosted at 1and1.comand right at the moment of the meta refresh it seems like all Session's are lost.Since it works perfect on Hostmonster, I think maybe it is a setting on 1and1.com?But what setting? I was searching around google and I found a post saying that sessions are always lost during meta refresh.But then why is there no problem at hostmonster?If anyone has any idea please post it. This is driving me crazy

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Whoever said sessions are always lost during meta refresh doesn't know what they're talking about. Meta refreshes are actually the way to refresh while explicitly keeping the session. A header refresh will lose the session before a meta refresh will. This site, and many others, use a meta refresh "thank you" page after logging in. Are you refreshing to a different domain or subdomain? Sessions won't carry across domains.

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Whoever said sessions are always lost during meta refresh doesn't know what they're talking about. Meta refreshes are actually the way to refresh while explicitly keeping the session. A header refresh will lose the session before a meta refresh will. This site, and many others, use a meta refresh "thank you" page after logging in. Are you refreshing to a different domain or subdomain? Sessions won't carry across domains.
I was thinking the same thing.. I actually got the idea from the meta refresh on this site very site a while ago.The refresh re opens the same file, and if the session is set one thing happens, if not it asks you for a nameand to press connect.on 1and1.com, after the refresh it still loads the view that shows up when the session isn't set.
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When you log in and a session gets created, examine the session cookie in your browser and see what the parameters are.
ok, I will post the results after I can do that later today. I don't have access to the server at the moment.thank you very much for the fast reply.
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I got a chance to mess around with the code today and I got it working.It turned out to be nothing to do with sessions at all.. uniqid() was not working..$a = uniqid();echo $a;outputs nothing.anyway.. I just made my unique key a different way and it works fine..But I am just wondering if that is because of a server setting? If so, which one?

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uniqid() is not a predefined function so unless you have defined the function somewhere it will output a warning.EDIT:Never mind, please ignore this

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uniqid() is not a predefined function so unless you have defined the function somewhere it will output a warning.
it works fine on my server though, I never had to define it before.. Anyway, I'm not doubting you.. just saying it's weird how it works on my server.
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