When session.auto_start=true "cookie is disabled" error displayed on login
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	• bzimport
	Nov 16 2005, 3:39 AM

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Author: zbigniew.braniecki

Description:
When you have session.auto_start=true in php.ini and you login to MediaWiki it
assigns new name to session cookie, but PHP can't change the default one
(http://pl.php.net/manual/en/function.session-name.php#42747).
Despite of that, when later MediaWiki asks for session cookie name by
session_name() method, it returns the new (not the assigned) one.

It's also a PHP bug imho (it should return the really used name).

Version: 1.5.x
Severity: normal
Platform: PC
URL: bugs.flock.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1531

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Reference: bz3990

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 8:54 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup.

• bzimport set Reference to bz3990.

• bzimport created this task.Nov 16 2005, 3:39 AM

zbigniew.braniecki wrote:

patch against 1.5.2

this patch adds a if() statement to check if MediaWiki can change the session
cookie name.

Attached:

bug-1531.patch692 BDownload

Applied on CVS HEAD.

martin wrote:

*** Bug 5251 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

chris wrote:

In 1.5.7, you can instead replace line 128 of Setup.php with this:

if (!ini_get('session.auto_start')) { // Added in case sessions auto start in PHP
session_name( $wgCookiePrefix . '_session' );
}

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When session.auto_start=true "cookie is disabled" error displayed on login
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