[UPHPU] session not working in page read with fsockopen

[Wade Preston Shearer]

On 3 Oct 2008, at 20:26, Daniel C. wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
>
>> I have a script that is reading another script via fsockopen. The  
>> second
>> script continues the user's session and echos out a variable in the  
>> session.
>> When I load this second script in a web browser it correctly echo's  
>> out the
>> variable but when fsockopen reads it it echos out nothing. I think  
>> that this
>> is because fsockopen isn't providing all of the functionality that  
>> a browser
>> does—namely, accepting cookies—and therefor now adequately carrying  
>> the
>> session. Does anyone have any idea on how I could make this work?
>
> www.php.net/curl
>
> Look at the curl_setopt function for info about how to set the "cookie
> jar" for your curl sessions.  Should do exactly what you want.

Thanks, Daniel. I got it working so that the session is working when  
the script is called by fsockopen [1]. Now, I have come across another  
problem however. I know that second script can read the session  
because if I write the variable out to a file or mail() it to myself,  
it's there. If I try to echo it out however, I get nothing. I have  
narrowed it down to session_start(). If I remove that and echo  
something out (a hard-coded test value), it works; if it's there  
however, fsockopen reads nothing. So, it appears that calling  
session_start() in a script being read by fsockopen kills all content  
being outputted. I have tried several different output buffer start/ 
finish/flush/clean combinations with no changes.

Anyone know why this isn't working or how to get around it?


[1] I did not use curl however since the first script is part of an  
application and I didn't want to hack it. The way I got it to work was  
by passing the session ID in the URL and setting the session to not  
use cookies for that script.
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