Comments on: Firefox Losing Session Variables on Redirect

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:08:35 +0000

Thanks for posting this, you are a God amongst Men!!!! I had to deal with this issue today. I did notice one thing that lead to different solution for me. After the first redirect to http://www.website.com the session variable was lost. However after the second redirect to http://www.website.com the session variable held its value. So as a solution i force an initial redirect to http://www.website.com before the user can input any data. I have tested it out with off site credit transactions and it seems to do the trick.

By: bretto36

bretto36 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:44:01 +0000

Generally with redirecting to a off site credit card payment system and back as long as it was the same main domain no change to www then the session variables would remain active. I will do some testing of this. Thanks for the comment Chris

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:02:18 +0000

Firefox also sees a redirect from http://www.host.com/page1.html to http://www.host.com/page2.html as a totally separate site. the solution as posted here is to only use relative links so “page2.html” really sucks for off site credit card payments when they redirect you back to the original site. I still consider this a bug.

By: bretto36

bretto36 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:39:09 +0000

Woot

By: BSG

BSG — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:11:35 +0000

Thanks so much!!!! That solved a problem that I had struggled with.