i loose my session when switching from "sitename" to "site-ipnumber"

Hi,

when somebody enters my webpage i save the userid in a session variable. They can access my webpage at 2 ways. They can access it by typing the ipnumber or the name of the site in the browsers' addressbar.
either way the sessionvariable will be filled with the userid. But the problem is that i used a few absolute paths in my site. With those paths i always used this format: "ipnumber/page.asp". When a user enters my site by typing the name in de browser the session value is set (i checked this!). But when i redirect somewhere on my site to "ipnumber/page.asp" this value is lost.

Is there some way to solve this problem?

cause i thought it wouldn't make any difference if you access a site by it's ipnumber or by it's name because the server treats both the same...or is this assumption incorrect?

any help is appreciated!

Harold

try using cookies.

That's the problem. Cookies are stored according to the domain (or IP) and returned to the domain (or IP) that set it. So when you start a session with the domain, a cookie is set, but that cookie is not returned to a script using the IP, so a different session is started.

If it's not a security issue for you, move the session ID to the URL instead.

security is the main issue cause i'm developing it for a jail

anybody another suggestion in stead of moving the session id to the url?

It might be possible for you to set two cookies, one for the domain and one for the IP by specifically using these in the setcookie() function.

If you could create a subdomain that pointed to the other IP address then you could set the cookie to work accross the main domain and all sub domains.