[Phpmyadmin-devel] Re: authentication with session

[enfant]

Hi Loïc & list :)

I am biased towards Sessions, because at my site I run some
Session-based
applications, for about 15 users, since more that a year, with no
problems.
But I admit they are all on the same LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP).


Loïc a écrit :
> 
> Hi Marc & all!
> 
> >maybe we could continue to support "advanced auth" (http-
> >style) but offer for PHP4 users a new session-based login
> >panel?
> 
> IMHO sessions are too buggy to be use with such a
> widespead application. Search for the keyword "sessions"
> in the php bug database and you'll find there were and still
> exist many problems depending on:
> - directives in the php.ini file (for example session are
>    unusable with register_globals set to off since php4.01);
> - the php4 sub-release;
> - and the server OS.
> 
> ... I'm afraid so many parameters can't be taken into account
> to obtain a working session authentification system :(
> 
> Just my 2 cents,
> Loïc
> 
> 
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