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Bug #27550 session_name doesn't fail or compensate for illegal white space
Submitted: 2004-03-10 10:42 UTC Modified: 2004-03-10 13:35 UTC
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Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
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From: whelan at nexserver dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Session related
PHP Version: 4.3.4 OS: Windows XP
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2004-03-10 10:42 UTC] whelan at nexserver dot com 
Description:
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if it contains a space, you get a new session_id on every page calling session_start(). I believe php should either fail and return an error or compensate for the space. It shouldn't just not work correctly.

Reproduce code:
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session_name('New Session');
session_start();

Expected result:
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It should maintain the same session id for each session with the same session name.

Actual result:
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It will create a new session id for each time this is called.

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 [2004-03-10 13:23 UTC] sniper@php.net 
RTFM
 [2004-03-10 13:31 UTC] whelan at nexserver dot com 
This is definately a problem with php. It is either an illegal parameter, or it should be handled as if it were a correct parameter. It does neither at this time. It will not maintain a session of a name with a space in it. You're saying it should start a new session with a new session id every time it encounters a session with the same name, so it doesn't maintain the session variables? This doesn't make any sense.
 [2004-03-10 13:35 UTC] derick@php.net 
No, he said "RTFM":

http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/function.session-name.php says:

 The session name references the session id in cookies and URLs. It should contain only alphanumeric characters; it should be short and descriptive (i.e. for users with enabled cookie warnings).
 
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