turn off PHPSESSID

[bobnew32]

I have a script which doesn't use the retarted PHPSESSID that is added onto the url, how do I automatically not make it come up? Its coming up randomly and annoying me.

[coopster]

PHP is capable of transforming links transparently. Unless you are using PHP 4.2 or later, you need to enable it manually when building PHP. Under Unix, pass --enable-trans-sid [php.net] to configure. If this build option and the run-time option

session.use_trans_sid

are enabled, relative URIs will be changed to contain the session id automatically.

You may want to read more about Passing the Session ID [php.net] in PHP. I'm guessing it is going to be a configuration-related issue.

[Sunshyn]

Last year, right during the holiday season, the PHP version on my server must have been updated without notice because I suddenly started getting PHPSESSID strings in the URL. It had severely screwed up my search engine placements before I figured out it was doing so.

The server owner added the following line to my .htaccess file to make it stop:

php_flag session.use_trans_sid off

[mep00]

php_flag session.use_trans_sid off

Doesn't that only hide it from those without cookies?

[Sunshyn]

Doesn't that only hide it from those without cookies?

The PHPSESSID was only showing up in the URL when cookies weren't on when that happened to me so it certainly stopped it from coming up at all. I can't tell from the initial post if the random occurances might have anything to do with cookies or not.