Do AJAX requests retain PHP Session info?

Question

If I had a user logged onto my site, having his id stored in $_SESSION, and from his browser he clicked a \'Save\' button which would make an AJAX request to th

Answer 1

One thing to watch out for though, particularly if you are using a framework, is to check if the application is regenerating session ids between requests - anything that depends explicitly on the session id will run into problems, although obviously the rest of the data in the session will unaffected.

If the application is regenerating session ids like this then you can end up with a situation where an ajax request in effect invalidates / replaces the session id in the requesting page.