[mythtv-users] recorded programs patch - session problem

[Joel Anderson]

Ok, I discovered that the cookie was never actually created, even though it
appeared in the http header and everything seemed to be in order.  I set my
browser so that it would ask before saving any cookie at all, and it never
asked.  I did this with IE6 and Mozilla, with no cookies in sight for
either.

I eventually found that for some reason it does not like the 'domain' being
set in the cookie parameters, possibly because it doesn't have a domain?  It
was returning the hostname instead, which seems to have caused the browsers
to reject or completely ignore the cookie altogether.

So to sum it up, I edited /var/www/html/mythweb/includes/init.php and
changed
    session_set_cookie_params(60 * 60 * 24 * 355, '/', server_domain);
to
    session_set_cookie_params(60 * 60 * 24 * 355, '/');

And actually I think the '/' is not really required because it is the
default anyway, so it can even be
    session_set_cookie_params(60 * 60 * 24 * 355);

I don't know if changing this causes problems for anyone else, but it works
perfectly for me.

Regards,

Joel