Mozilla ate my PHP

[Nephalim]

I was ready to switch to Mozilla (v1.4) from IE until I had a problem running my PHP apps. Anytime a redirect is called for, nothing happens. It is of the form:

header("Location: page.php");
exit();

I also tried using absolute URLs (ie http://localhost/page.php), but to no avail. Any ideas?

[Nephalim]

Holy butt-monkey, I figured it out! It seems that Mozilla won't run PHP scripts that include sessions (it just so happened that every page with a redirect also used session variables) when cookies are disabled. Once session cookies were enabled in Mozilla's Cookie Manager, everything worked out wonderfully.

I'm not sure if this discovery is a disconcerting blow to my "no mandatory cookies" policy or if I'm glad that Mozilla actually stops every cookie from being generated where IE didn't. I'd be happier about the situation if Mozilla's Cookie Manager had a whitelisting feature where all but explicitly demarked sites were denied cookie privileges (my own preference) and PHP had a way to use sessions without cookies (I'm not sure if there is or not).

[tortugapir8]

You can disable cookies for php sessions, although this does leave a potential security issue (the session id will be embedded in the url), to do this find and change the following lines in the php.ini file:

session.use_cookies = 0
session.use_trans_sid = 1

BTW, Mozilla 1.5a lets you have a little more control over cookies then a simple accept/deny option.