Questions tagged [session]
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What happens to a user's browser if an SSL certificate is replaced in mid-session?
In light of modern browsers phasing out security certificates signed using the SHA1 hash algorithm, we're busy replacing all our SHA1 certificates with SHA2. Generally we could simply replace certs for these primarily internal-use web apps in the…
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How to restart Apache without reseting users sessions?
User is logged-in a PHP website > I restart Apache > User needs to log-in again.
How to prevent this? (I don't want user to need to log-in again)
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Chrome 80 clears session cookies for users returning from payment gateway
I'm managing several e-commerce websites, they are all custom build and they all accept credit card payments via bank redirection (website redirects the client to bank's payment page, bank redirects client back to site after payment has been…
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Why does Google Analytics end sessions at midnight?
I'm storing my own copy of Google Analytics session data and I'm trying to figure out their schema.
I'm trying to figure out why does Google Analytics end sessions at midnight?
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Google Analytics custom report that shows more users than sessions
Can anyone give me an example where the users count will be greater than the number of sessions?
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2934985?hl=en
As per Google’s explanation I am pasting some contents from the site which Google gave as…
Srijith Ramachandran
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Website visitors with same PHP session ID, same cookies, but different IPs and user agents, all within one second. What are they and how to stop them?
We've noticed an unusual and growing pattern in visits to our website.
When a user visits, we set a PHP session ID, set cookies, and record the user agent and ip.
What we've seen happening a lot recently is a visit from a user who has no PHP session…
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How can I have multiple sessions in FF without using profiles?
I'd like to test my website as different users simultaneously, ideally on Firefox. Currently the only ways I know of doing this are
Using different browsers
Using profiles with FF
It's frustrating using FF profiles as you have to reinstall all…
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The same user from different IP-addresses?
Has anybody encountered the situation when the same user from the same session ID and the same browser requested 2 different scripts on the same webserver inside the duration of 30 sec from two different IP addresses thorugh HTTPS?
Is it…
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Will session level custom variables allow Google Analytics to report on more data than page level variables?
We run a radio station site with 5 markets. The value of the market is saved as a cookie and last week I started tracking the value of that cookie in a page-level custom variable.
The problem is that when reporting on the page views of this custom…
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Session cookie being dropped when moving under the SSL
The short version:
I've got a session cookie being set on a dev site but it's not being picked up when I move to the SSL (so the shopping cart empties when you go to the checkout).
When it's set on the www site:
# http://dev.domain.ext
Name …
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Multiple Websites - PHP Session Isolation
I have a LAMP stack on a VPS where I set up multiple virtual hosts for different (sub)domains:
example.com
www.example.com
dev.example.com
Now, I would like to make sure that PHP session data is isolated, i.e. not shared between these websites.…
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Recent Samsung Internet browser update is blocking cookies for "log in" and "add to basket" on my site
Over the last couple of days I've had half a dozen users report to me that Samsung Internet has broken my website. (Although of course none of them realise this, they think the site is broken). Essentially it's blocking session cookies I believe. …
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Why would a redirected site accrue sessions in Google Analytics?
A site I have is set up to redirect (301) to another site. But strangely the redirected site is accruing sessions in Google Analytics. The session numbers for each site (the redirected one and the one it redirects to) don't even match.
What could…
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what is a session in google analytics
Case 1:
If user search for a keyword Key1 and my site's result Page1 comes in google search results.
User clicks that result and enters my site. So it is a session for user with on Page1
Case 2:
Now from Page1 user moves to Page2. So is this a…
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How does Google Analytics define "new users"?
I've created custom report to track some params of new visitors from Google organic search. When I choose "landing page", the report returns pages like /orders/ or /order?id=xxxxx etc.
The reality is that those pages can not become landings from…
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