On Tuesday 10 May 2005 00:48, john wrote: > I have been developing a site which stores an image files binary data > inside a session variable. Initially, I was developing this site on the > following environment: > > Apache-2.0.52/PHP5.0.3/Windows XP > > Things worked very well, as I expected them to anyway. I would upload > images and they would be manipulated and stored back into the session. > > I then moved over to my production box: > > Apache-2.0.54/PHP5.0.4/FreeBSD > > And everything literally stopped dead in it's track with regards to the > session variables and the binary data. Whenever I now upload an image, > it is properly stored in session. However, whenever I do > session_start(); on any page, it just hangs. > > In fact, here is the test.php file on which it hung: > > <?PHP > session_start(); > ?> > Hi // Never gets outputted to browser
What does print_r($_SESSION); say. Also, use a debug LogLevel in Apache and check the output in the error_log file. > > I've yet to come across other users with this same problem. Furthermore, > upon suggestions of co-workers, I have tried to base64 encode before it > is serialized by PHP and base64 decode this data when I need to use it. > > Looking through my /var/tmp directory, I see that in fact the session > file is 300KB, which makes sense, since the image I was trying to upload > was indeed roughly 300KB. > > Regards > > PS, also check out my MySQLi group @ > http://groups-beta.google.com/group/MySQLi if ever in need of help with > that part of the PHP world :-) -- Cyberly yours, Petar Nedyalkov Devoted Orbitel Fan :-) PGP ID: 7AE45436 PGP Public Key: http://bu.orbitel.bg/pgp/bu.asc PGP Fingerprint: 7923 8D52 B145 02E8 6F63 8BDA 2D3F 7C0B 7AE4 5436
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