session error messages

  • Resolved Stephen S

    (@ssuess)


    7 years, 12 months ago

    [13-Mar-2017 21:39:06 UTC] PHP Warning: session_start(): The session id is too long or contains illegal characters, valid characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and ‘-,’ in /var/www/example.org/wp-content/plugins/dashboard-contact-form/index.php on line 84
    [13-Mar-2017 21:39:06 UTC] PHP Warning: Unknown: The session id is too long or contains illegal characters, valid characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and ‘-,’ in Unknown on line 0

    any idea how to get rid of these?

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  • Thread Starter Stephen S

    (@ssuess)

    Ok, I found the problem. I have a new user whose username contains a period, which is allowed by WordPress. This plugin was using that username to set the session name, but a period is NOT an allowed character in a session name. So I changed that code to replace a period with “DOT”

    $session_id = 'CDW'.str_replace('.','DOT',$current_user->user_login);

    and now bingo, no errors. Hope this helps someone else.

    Plugin Author Papik81

    (@papik81)

    OK, I tried to fix this with using cdw + username MD5hash. I don’t know how good idea is it..As by the log it seems to be usable solution too. So this should work better in futire releases.

    Plugin Author Papik81

    (@papik81)

    Resolved.

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