R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah wrote:

> Chris Hope <blackhole@electrictoolbox.com> wrote in message
> news:<7o5ad.11801$JQ4.749785@news.xtra.co.nz>...
>> Steve wrote:
> <snip>
>> > when I reference the php code via img src="myimage.php", none of my
>> > session variables are available for use in the script.
>
> It shouldn't happen unless your script is buggy.
>
>> Not sure why you would be having problems with the session stuff, and
>> anyway it's not a perfect solution because it won't work if they don't
>> have cookies enabled.
>
> Not sure, what are you talking about.
>
> <snip>
>> The advantage of doing it this way is that people cannot directly access
>> the image generation script, and there's no possibilty of hotlinking to
>> the image from another site as they'll get a broken image after 2 hours.
>
> Incidentally, hotlinking can be *easily* fixed with session and
> output buffering techniques.

Except you cannot rely on sessions. If they don't have cookies enabled in
their browser then every request will appear to be from a new session.

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