From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-09-15T01:31:33+09:00
Subject: Re: [BUG/PATCH] cgi/session.rb

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Paul wrote:

> I've seen problems in the past where certain versions of Firefox and other
> browsers did not handle cookies for localhost and other domains without '.'
> in them. This might be the problem. Check your cookie cache and see if a
> cookie is being set.

this is defintely something to do with it.  i've been able to duplicate it
twice today in different servers - but still can't pin down exactly which
conditions trigger it.  it seems something to do with having multiple
_session_id fields in HTTP_COOKIE and - possibly - having no prior session
storage.  it's like some set of conditions sets it up to fail repeatedly but,
if the conditions arise for it to succeed it will continute to succeed... any
thoughts?

cheers.

-a
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