Session Vars missing in action

[DeepBlerg]

Hi,

I have a site that has a shopping cart and when they check out I transfer to the secure SSL server. However upon doing this I loose all my session variables. I thought maybe I should POST the session variables to the secure site however the session contains a multi-dimensional shopping cart class which looks like this:

Array
(
    [cCart] => shopping_cart Object
        (
            [_cart] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Array
                        (
                            [ProductID] => 3
                            [quantity] => 1
                        )

                    [1] => Array
                        (
                            [ProductID] => 72
                            [quantity] => 2
                        )

                )

            [_shipping_amount] => 0
            [_gst_percent] => 0.1
            [_gst_amount] => 0
            [_sub_total] => 0
            [_total] => 0
            [_dblink] => 0
            [_table] => products
        )

)

Also I don't want to put the whole site on the secure server since its a shared certificate and it would popup the IE 'secure/nonsecure' warning on every page load, plus it would load slow.

Any ideas?

 

[sleipnir214]

Do the secure site and non-secure site use the same domain name?

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[DeepBlerg]

no they dont:

if the nonsecure is: shoppingsite.com

then the secure site would be: secure.parentserver.com/~shopppingsite.com

 

[sleipnir214]

Then that's the problem.

Sessions, in their default configuration, use cookies to store the session store index. And cookies do not cross domain name bounds.

You can pass session indeces through URLs. It's ugly but it works. See

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php,

look for the documentation on session.use_trans_sid.



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