php - Session data lost in Chrome only

Question

I have a problem similar if not identical to the problem in this thread: Randomly Losing Session Variables Only In Google Chrome & URL Rewriting

But all solutions in that thread don't work for me. I'm getting a strange behavior from only Google Chrome in my PHP/MySQL App. If I try it with Firefox, it works, but Chrome doesn't.

I navigate to some place in my shopping cart and at several places in the code I'll store session data. Don't worry about me starting the session or anything related to that, I've got 11 years in webapp dev, all is done fine.

In all browsers, I can var_dump($_SESSION) and get my data back, but in Chrome it doesn't keep the data. Also note that the session does get passed on, I can look in the network monitor and I see the cookie being sent and many other things related to session work but that one $_SESSION['last_viewed_element'] is not kept. I also can't seem to set anything else, all gets lost.

EDIT:

Problem resolved by switching from SESSIONS TO COOKIES...

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8247842/session-data-lost-in-chrome-only

Answer 1

I had a very similar problem, in my case the problem was a 404 called due to a missing favicon.ico in Chrome only. The 404.php called the footer which altered the Session Variables. I hope that helps someone.