See also: http://www.mtdev.com/2002/06/why-you-should-disable-phps-session-use_trans_sid

If one opened a page in my wiki through an external link, like Mini-HOWTO for OpenVPN with FLI4L, all links on that page contained the additional parameter “DokuWiki”, followed by a longer combination of numbers and characters. At that time i assumed this to be a feature of DokuWiki – until i looked closer at the code of DokuWiki.

DokuWiki creates a PHP session with session_start(). Usually, a cookie with the name “PHPSESSID” will be used to store the generated session ID. Well – DokuWiki also changes the name of the session to “DokuWiki”, so the cookie for the session ID is named “DokuWiki”.

It may happen, that PHP assumes, that it is not possible to use cookies and adds the session ID as an additional parameter to all links and as additional hidden fields in forms – which can cause a number of problems. This can be controlled by the configuration setting “use_trans_sid”.

In one case, i could use in the file .htaccess, which was already used to make “nice” URLs possible with DokuWiki:

<IfModule mod_php4.c>
php_value session.use_trans_sid 0
</IfModule>