I had a programmer develop one of the framework adn he’s currently away for a week. Basically he used CodeIgniter to develop a framework.
Whenever I access the dev environment, it stores a lengthy cookie. Where should I look at to reduce the session size?
Set-Cookie:
mysite_session=AjgDOFk%2FXDoPelgiAm8ENVs%2BUjlQIwNzUDMAIFB3BWoFawFpAQpROFRrCygHbl1yAzcONAdiU2lUIwFkVT0DNgRgAzEHagRgDDVWMwg%2BUTcCbQMyWTpcYg9iWGACMwRmWzlSYlA4AzRQZgAyUDQFYAU9AWEBNFE1VDoLKAduXXIDNw42B2BTaVQjATlVdANfBGMDNAc3BHAMaFYjCC9RcwJiA3FZMVwxDzNYawJ3BDVbNlI7UC8DOVBlAH1QNQUzBSoBMgFjUXNUNAt5B29dMAM9Dj0HclMmVHIBNVV2A18EYwM3BzYEbAx5VnIIZ1EiAmMDNlk%2BXDoPI1gGAjAEZlsjUnBQbwNpUDAANVBhBXEFKwE2AXtRYVQhCzkHYl0hAyUOLAc4UydUdQEgVT4DLwQtAycHNgRgDCBWIwgyUTgCPwNkWW5ccg8vWD8CMARwWyFSKlAjAztQJQBpUDUFMAU%2BASUBOVEwVHwLfgcKXWADbg5zBzlTJVRoASRVfQMiBDkDOQdpBDMMPlZjCGhRYgJtAzBZP1w0DzVYagIo;
path=/
Out of interest why is this a concern?
You can look in
application/config/config.php
search for $config[‘sess_encrypt_cookie’], if it is set to TRUE, try setting it to FALSE. This will reduce the size of the cookie but obviously as the name suggests it will not encrypt session data.