CakePHP session error : User-Agent must be consistent
Comments(4) I noticed some erratic behavior with CakePHP sessions and finally tracked down the error. I have FireBug installed with an extension called FirePHP. When FireBug is enabled, I noticed that my User-Agent tends to vary.
Sometimes my browser’s user agent reads :
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100202 Firefox/3.5.8 FirePHP/0.4
Sometimes it reads :
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100202 Firefox/3.5.8
Whenever the User-Agent changes, CakePHP resets the session. This means that I can’t view 3-4 pages on the site before being logged out.
This is the firebug extension that caused the problem.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6149
Here’s a link to an error report on FirePHP’s forums
http://n2.nabble.com/FirePHP-and-CakePHP-Session-Reset-tp4671294ef842658.html
This is a great add-on called HTTPFox I used to track down this error.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6647
This error can also arise when you have Flash or Java applets which interact with CakePHP, since they have their own user agent strings which don’t match the browser.
I think this is configurable. In config.php, set “sess_match_useragent” to false.
Right on. Thanks for the tip, Matt.
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