[xdebug-general] Xdebug session cookie

Hi,

Posted this over in the Eclipse PDT newsgroups as I originally throught it was a problem with PDT but it seems like it is something more withing Xdebug. Attached is a copy of that thread.

I am curious if the changes to Xdebug are reasonable or not and if there is anything I can do to help implement them into Xdebug.

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Shawn Clark
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Just tested and it is indeed a problem with the cookie. Within my
application I have some site wide cookies setup so that the host is
..domain.com where the first . is to signify all sub-domains. What I did
was edit my XDEBUG_SESSION cookie once it was created to add the . in
the front and now I can debug all sub-domains.

So my question now is can one or the other of the following be made
available:

- Can a flag be set within the Xdebug php.ini settings to allow a wild
card sub-domain cookie instead of the domain itself
- Can a URL argument be passed along with the XDEBUG_SESSION_START to
state that it is for all sub-domains
   - With this option a setting would need to be added to the Xdebug
server configuration within PDT to tell which PHP server configurations
can pass that argument

If time is of concern then I can look at making the change to PDT if
someone is able to help with the Xdebug side of things. I did notice
there is a Firefox add-on to enable Xdebug for a specific page. I am
going to look at extending that add-on to do multiple sub-domains as
well as an interim solution.

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Shawn Clark
Shawn Clark wrote:
> Ah... that is sort of what I was thinking but it wasn't working and now 
> I think I understand exactly what the problem is and it isn't so much a 
> problem with PDT as it is with Xdebug.
> 
> When Eclipse loads the URL in the server configuration for the debug 
> session it passes along the information which Xdebug then puts into a 
> session cookie for the browser. The thing I am guessing is happening is 
> that the cookie is only for the current domain and not any sub-domain of 
> that domain. So when I am going to a sub-domain the cookie isn't being 
> passed to Xdebug and as such Xdebug isn't relaying the absolute path 
> information to the IDE.
> 
> I am going to test now and will see if that is the case. I will just 
> watch where Xdebug tells the browser to assign the cookie. I am guessing 
> it is just for the main domain that is for the URL that is set in Eclipse.
> 
> -- 
> Shawn Clark
> 
> Dave wrote:
>> Hi Shawn, I am not sure I fully understand the problem. The xdebug 
>> implementation doesn't make use of urls for path mapping. The only 
>> time the url is used is when you launch the debugger for the first 
>> time. This then invokes that url and turns on the xdebug cookie so 
>> that the browser is then in debug mode. All interaction between xdebug 
>> running in the web server and PDT is done by absolute file name and 
>> this is what the path mapper uses. So you map the absolute path in the 
>> web server to your workspace path in PDT.
>>
>> When you set a breakpoint in PDT, it can translate that to the correct 
>> absolute path in your server and define the correct breakpoint in the 
>> server. So if it is all the same code then that breakpoint will fire 
>> and PDT will break.
>>
>> PDT autogenerates a path mapping based on the file you specify in the 
>> web script launch and the file that gets executed when the url is 
>> invoked. You can of course create your own path mappings when you 
>> define the server.
>>
>> I hope this explanation helps.
>>
>> Dave Kelsey
>>
>>
>> Shawn Clark wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am wondering if it is possible to setup a PDT debug session to 
>>> respond to multiple sub domains?
>>>
>>> I am working with an application that has ServerAlias' within a 
>>> virtual host such that any number of sub domains call the same code 
>>> so if I setup a breakpoint on a line of code it should break on any 
>>> of the sub domains.
>>>
>>> Currently it doesn't look like it is possible due to the fact the the 
>>> PHP Server configuration has a URL like http://domain.com/. What I 
>>> would be looking for is something like http://*.domain.com/. Then in 
>>> the path mapping it would just be one entry.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Shawn Clark