From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-09-14T13:24:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [BUG/PATCH] cgi/session.rb

Hi,

In message "Re: [BUG/PATCH] cgi/session.rb"
    on Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:00:21 +0900, "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> writes:

|the following program with fail both the way it is, and using the commented
|section:
|
|
|   ~ > cat a.cgi
|   #! /usr/local/bin/ruby
|
|   require 'cgi'
|   require 'cgi/session'
|
|   cgi = CGI::new
|
|   database_manager = CGI::Session::FileStore
|
|   session =
|   =begin
|     begin
|       s = CGI::Session::new cgi, 'database_manager' => database_manager, 'new_session' => false
|       s.delete
|       s
|     rescue ArgumentError
|       CGI::Session::new cgi, 'database_manager' => database_manager, 'new_session' => true
|     end
|   =end
|       CGI::Session::new cgi, 'database_manager' => database_manager
|
|   session.close
|
|   this_time = Time::now
|   last_time = session['last_time'] || this_time
|   session['last_time'] = this_time
|   session.close
|
|   content = ''
|   content << "<hr> THIS_TIME @ <b>#{ this_time }</b> <hr>"
|   content << "<hr> LAST_TIME @ <b>#{ last_time }</b> <hr>"
|
|   cgi.out{ content }
|
|in either case a new session is __always__ created.  the docs say:

Can you explain how it fails?  "the way it is" version seems to work
for me.  Perhaps you have expected something different from me.

							matz.