Cant get session working with ajax request

Question

I have a simple file to set a session variable

<?php session_start(); $_SESSION['my_name'] = "dave"; ?>

and a simple file to see the stored variable

<?php session_start(); echo $_SESSION['my_name']; ?>

if I call the file in the browser the session value is displayed correctly but if I make a ajax call using for example using http://requestmaker.com/ or https://www.hurl.it/ then the body response is blank. I can't see what is going wrong here its driving me nuts.

Any ideas

Cheers

Dave

Are you sure the 2 sites mentioned keep session cookies? Have you tried it with a jQuery call or anything else you would like? — Mathieu de Lorimier
– Mathieu de Lorimier, Commented Mar 26, 2016 at 0:52
You can't control / manage sessions from other sites via AJAX like that. — random_user_name
– random_user_name, Commented Mar 26, 2016 at 0:52
CORS: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Access_control_CORS — Federkun
– Federkun, Commented Mar 26, 2016 at 0:56
Ah I see, because the request from then coming from another domain eg requestmaker.com the session variables were invalid, guess I should have considered that, my excuse is that it's 2am! — ejectamenta
– ejectamenta, Commented Mar 26, 2016 at 1:02

Luis Deras · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-26 00:56:16Z

You're trying to watch $_SESSION['user_name'] variable when you saved the $_SESSION['my_name']. variable

Correct one of the identifiers.

ejectamenta · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-26 01:05:01Z

Its inappropriate to use third party http-request sites and still expect the session variables to be valid since the request is then coming from a different domain to your server.

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