php - Sharing session between two different web browser

Question

I want to make a PHP web application in which on a single PC there can only be one authentication session at a time i.e. User A login using Firefox, but User B cannot login using IE on the same PC

Of what i googled session sharing between browsers can not be done if asked from server side

Answer 1

Theoretically, you could do this using session_id() and a database entry, although security will be tricky since a malicious user could try generating random session IDs to mimic a logged-on user's session.

Session information is stored in a cookie in the client's browser, with a specified ID. By storing that ID and a JSON string of the data, whenever it's updated, various users could conceivably share the same data. They'd all have to poll the server once in a while to see if the data has been changed.

But at that point, you don't need to use $_SESSION anymore, so it's pretty much defeated the purpose of your question. You can get the same behavior with regular variables, which would already be a security improvement.

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Short answer: No, that's not the point of sessions.