[Workaround found] CodeIgniter 3.0 cannot access native $_SESSION

You don't necessarily need the same handler, just simply emulate the behaviour a bit. It's quite simple: get value of cookie (by default ci_session) and load the content of the session file containing this name (if you use files driver) from directory specified in $config['sess_save_path']

Hi, this is interesting. do you mean that ci_session contains the name of the session file?
I believe it is encrypted. How do you decode that?
Interesting idea and it is going to be very easy and efficient if I can do that.