[3.0] Remove PHPSESSID #8399
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[3.0] Remove PHPSESSID #8399
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Signed by Shawn Bulen, bulens@pacbell.net
Signed by Shawn Bulen, bulens@pacbell.net
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See #8394 for 2.1 version. |
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Partial for #8383 (addresses 3.0 only)
This PR removes PHPSESSID URL handling altogether from SMF. It also addresses the 8.4 SID & session parameter deprecation issues, that are related. The point of the 8.4 changes was to eventually remove PHP's PHPSESSID URL processing.
It goes a bit further and will not write sessions where cookies are not present/allowed. I believe this last part can significantly decrease MySQL CPU workload for websites that are getting crawled heavily (like mine).
Testing thus far is fine. Things work OK with & without cookies. No impact to logon/logoff. No impact to queryless URLs. And there are DEFINITELY far fewer session records, that I believe were all unused anyway.
I have a modlet with this code that I have installed in various test environments & tested. It's on my prod site as well.
Loss of functionality:
Removing PHPSESSID from the URL did break one piece of functionality: Guest captcha verification, for searches & posts, specifically for people with cookies blocked. The image is not displayed. It works fine if cookies are not blocked.
I'm tempted to just leave it alone; I suspect folks who disable cookies run into lots of such limitations.
If we want something cleaner, another option would be to not display the search & post (& login) buttons when cookies are not found. Or an error popup, saying cookies are required. Open to feedback.