[AWS] AWS 2.8.0w, sessions and Opera

[Thomas Løcke]

Hey all,

I'm experiencing a weird issue when accessing an AWS test application
with Opera. Sessions are enabled and when accessing the application
using Opera two sessions are created. Only one of them are used. When
I the refresh the page, a new session is created again. This happens
on every refresh. An example:

-- First visit (cleared browser cache, deleted all cookies) --

Two sessions are created:
    SID-J2FXwMNDKY1
    SID-q8JsrKwwUfo

SID-q8JsrKwwUfo is the one used by Opera.

-- First page refresh --

Another session is created:
    SID-J2FXwMNDKY1
    SID-UGfeW1aYiDW
    SID-q8JsrKwwUfo

SID-q8JsrKwwUfo is still the active session. The two other session
ID's are not in use by the browser.

-- Second page refresh --
    SID-J2FXwMNDKY1
    SID-UGfeW1aYiDW
    SID-VMVMb2ocO28
    SID-q8JsrKwwUfo

SID-q8JsrKwwUfo is still the active session. The three other sessions
are "orphaned".

The above pattern repeats itself apparently indefinitely. On every
refresh, a new session is created and immediately abandoned.

This behavior is unique to Opera, for both Linux and Windows. I've
also tried two different version (9.5 and 10.5 branches), with the
same result. Other browsers I've tried are Firefox 2.x/3.6 (Linux and
Win), Konqueror 3.5 (Linux), Seamonkey 1.1.18 (Linux) and 2.0.4 (Win),
Google Chrome 4/5 (Linux and Win), Safari 4 (Win) and IE 8 (Win). All
of these behave as expected: 1 session is created on first visit, and
none on page refreshes.

What is interesting is that I cannot replicate this behavior using a
PHP website with session support, so it appears to be a problem unique
to Opera and AWS.

I'd very much like to help debug this issue, so please let me know if
there's anything I can do to assist.

Regards,
Thomas Løcke