[reismarktq2]

Paul, there's some problems with the misc.php interface in its handling of sessions that's causing my site visitors some problems. I've tried this multiple times to be sure I have it down right, and this is the behavior we're experiencing:

- When the user accesses chat via misc.php, logging out from chat with the X at the top-right of the Java applet does not remove the session from the connections table. Instead, it merely nulls the userid associated with the session. Should the user access chat via flashchat.php and do the same thing, the session clears properly. (This behavior would seem to point to the problem being with the hack and not Flashchat.)
- In certain instances, when the user erroneously leaves chat by closing the browser - again, the user is always accessing chat via misc.php - the session is left unaltered, which results in the user being unable to re-enter chat. I've tried replicating this error using flashchat.php a hundred times, with both Firefox & IE, and I can't do it. Again, this points to a problem with the hack.
- What's even more annoying is that sessions like this don't seem to be affected by the timeout configuration settings. (We are using an inactivity interval of 30 minutes, with default autologout and autoclose times.) This is resulting in me having to go into phpMyAdmin and manually delete problem sessions, which is annoying because I am usually not present for chats.

I'm going to be switching back to having people use flashchat.php in the meantime, but I'd really appreciate it if you could try and figure out what's causing these bugs.