How can session_start cause my page to get stuck

Question

Ive seen a few people with the same problem, and I created a VERY simple test file. So I'm SURE its because of session_start . I've had this wired problem for days now and narrowed things down to this....

MY TEST FILE :) I basically start my page with <? @session_start(); ?> <? @session_start(); ?> <? @session_start(); ?> (nothing before the first <? not even a space) Then create $myyear = date("Y"); And if $myyear > 2000 I refresh the page after 2 seconds (with a meta refresh)

So it keeps refreshing, refreshen refreshing.... but after about a minute it gets stuck.

if i remove session_start or @session_start it suddenly works forever. So it can only be session_start causing the problem -> even through i don't even create a real session.

Any idea how this can be fixed? or what i should be looking for?

Answer 1

Based on your description, I've come up with the following code:

<?php
    session_start();
    $myyear = date('Y');
    if ($myyear > 2000) {
        echo('<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2">');
    }
?>
Page Contents (<?php echo(time()) ?>)

This works as expected for me.
If it works for you as well, please figure out what's different between your code and this.