From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2002-02-21T08:32:53+09:00
Subject: Re: dang it, CGI::Session is broken again

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 07:19:12AM +0900, Dan McNulty wrote:
> 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!
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> 
> require "cgi"
> require "cgi/session"
> 
> cgi = CGI.new
> 
> sess = CGI::Session.new(cgi,
>                        "session_key" => "a_test",

Replace session_key with session_id. session_key is a valid option for
CGI sessions, but I'm not sure of the semantics after a glance at the
session code -- more details in the lib of the ruby installation
/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/cgi/session.rb on my Debian system.

>                        "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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