From: Cere Davis <cere@...>
Date: 2004-07-15T06:27:19+09:00
Subject: Re: cgi session management is foobar


Ok,  I figured it out.  I needed to flush stdout and close the session. ;)

Cere Davis wrote:
> If I just do:
> 
> require 'cgi'
> require 'cgi/session'
> 
> cgi = CGI.new("html3")
> sess = CGI::Session.new(cgi,
>                         "new_session" => true,
>                         "session_key" => "rubyweb",
>                         "session_id" => "9650",
>                         "prefix" => "web-session"
>                       )
> 
> print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"
> print "<html><body>"
> #puts   sess.inspect
> print "HTML content here"
> print "</body></html>"
> 
> And run this script on the command line.
> 
> I get no html output beyond the Content-type line.  Needless to say the 
> cgi script too.
> 
> When I comment out the session creation line the script runs fine. 
> What's wrong with this picture?
> 
> -Cere