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Hi all,

So i am watching my cookies in Safari’s prefs pane (Security>Show Cookies). I have the session library autoloading from the main config file. Every page I hit, the ci_session cookie gets a new string instead of keeping the same session_id to be used over and over again until it expires and a new one is generated.  Is it fair to assume that Safari is not “seeing” the existing cookie and thus creating a new one each page load? Has anyone run into this problem ? Everything works perfectly in Mozilla/FF.

Notable:  I am creating and checking the sessions via AJAX calls.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Have you tried it in opera? I seem to be having similar troubles and i’m not using javascript.

Ill check in Opera, just need to install it. Is this something new you think, e.g. have you had this problem before?

I haven’t found out how to fix it yet!

I gave up using CI’s session library for this reason. Much as I loathe to abandon use of an on-board CI library, I’ve had nothing but trouble using it. I switched to PHP session, which can be used in addition to CI’s native session library if you choose, rather than as a direct replacement like some of the other session libraries.

Trouble is i am using a different session library - obsession - i’m tempted to try CI’s session library!

Hah hah… Safari troubles all around. To be fair, I’ve mostly run into problems with Safari keeping session ids locally (localhost)

Hi,

I just had the same problem, got the answer in another thread; thought I would update this one too.  Turns out Safari did not like the date/time set on my server, thus it would not keep the session cookie set.

On my ubuntu server I ran

ntpdate ntp.ubuntu.com

fixed the problem immediately!

mm

I have no problems keeping a localhost session.  However, I have an alias for my localhost (dev.evanwalsh.net), so that may have something to do with it.

i am having problem too with ci_session library.. before it is working on safari and also in opera.. then i upgraded my browsers to the latest version.. and now i could not log in to my applications because it redirects when ever i log in.. what do you think is the problem with ci_session library? or is it with the browser? it works good in FF.

Could easily be the hostname issue mentioned earlier. Newer browsers implement more security when it comes to cookies, so invalid cookies that use to be accepted may no longer be.

Remove underscore from session cookie name. Certain browsers like IE and Safari do not support underscore in cookie names.