[thelist] Norton and PHP sessions

[seb potter]

On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 12:52, Andrew Maynes wrote:
> I have just come across something very strange.  Norton has been installed on a
> local PC and now prevents a connection to a website admin panel that is written
> in PHP.
>
> Any ideas what would prevent access?

Does that Norton software include some kind of web privacy guard?
Does it block cookies?

If the answer to these questions is "yes", then you need to Turn It Off
(tm).

PHP can use cookies for sessions, so Norton's probably blocking them.

- seb

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