hi 

i am experiencing a major problem with sessions expiring randomly in some of my 
apps. i will log in and start clicking around and then i will eventually 
arrive at a page that tells me that i'm not logged in anymore. this happens 
apparently randomly. i have seen it on ie6, ie for mac, netscape 4.7 for pc, 
and mozilla 

the apps are hosted on 

freebsd 4.7-release p2 
apache 1.3.27 
php version 4.2.3 
compiled with --enable-trans-sid 

i can't go into production if there's the possibility that users will be 
randomly logged off. i went through all of my code over the weekend, and i 
don't think i can attribute this to a miscoding: 

when a user logs in, i create a session with 

session_start(); 
$valid_user=$_POST['username']; 
session_register("valid_user"); 

i have the following code at the top of each page to check to see if the session 
is valid: 

session_start(); 
$valid_user=$_SESSION['valid_user']; 
global $valid_user; 
if (session_is_registered("valid_user") 
{...function to spit out an error message if the session is not valid...;} 

i have a logout page that destroys the session 

session_start(); 
session_destroy(); 

i also have a javascript timer in the header of every page that redirects to the 
logout page if the user has been inactive for 20 minutes. 

i have played around with session.gc_probability, setting it to 100, but that 
doesn't seem to have fixed the problem. 

this is a huge problem. 
if anyone can give some advice, i'd really appreciate it. 

thanks

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