strip sessions from url

[ikbenhet1]

Is there anything out there that can match and strip session id's from a url in php?

[Robber]

Could you use $_GET['PHPSESSID'] to extract it?

[ikbenhet1]

i use curl to fetch these pages, i don't think i can can i?

[coopster]

So you want to strip any session id variables from the query string prior to fetching the page?

[ikbenhet1]

yes, please.

[coopster]

I guess it depends on where you are getting the url from in the first place. You are saying you have a url something along the lines of www.some-site.com?PHPSESSID=43lakfls4332asflsafj, and you are using it to retrieve a page via cURL. I guess you could use a regular expression on the url to extract only that information that is in front of the question mark in any given url string...?

[DrDoc]

Just use the URL up until the question mark, and ignore the rest. That will successfully strip the session ID. Otherwise, there's no way of telling for sure (100%) if you're stripping the session ID or something else, unless you know what the session name is.

[coopster]

Exactly.