From: dmcnulty@... (Dan McNulty)
Date: 2002-02-21T07:19:12+09:00
Subject: dang it, CGI::Session is broken again

What is wrong with this?  I swear this was working yesterday, but now
its broken.  I have a feeling something changed in my environment, and
that this will work as expected for others...perhaps the web gods have
cursed me, and I am destined for a future of never-working code :-(

For me, after rerunning this program sess["junk"] is always "nil". 
The session is never restored.

I am sorry for bringing this subject up again, but this is absolutely
maddening!

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#!/usr/bin/ruby

require "cgi"
require "cgi/session"

cgi = CGI.new

sess = CGI::Session.new(cgi,
                       "session_key" => "a_test",
                       "prefix" => "rubysess.")

if sess["junk"]==nil
   print "A new session ", "junk is ", sess["junk"], "\n"
   sess["junk"]=123
   print "A new session ", "junk is now ", sess["junk"], "\n"
   sess.close
else
   print "An existing session", "junk is ", sess["junk"], "\n"
   sess["junk"]=sess["junk"].to_i + 1
   print "An existing session", "junk is now ", sess["junk"], "\n"
   sess.close
end
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