From: dmcnulty@... (Dan McNulty)
Date: 2002-02-21T22:58:49+09:00
Subject: Re: dang it, CGI::Session is broken again

Hmmmm, nope, no joy after changing session_key to session_id.  The way
I read the session.rb code is that if session_id is omitted, a key
will be generated for you (which is good), but that a session_key
*must* be provided.

My web session bombs with an "Internal Error", but you can see what is
happening by running the code from the command line:

[cgiuser@0FEC2CAF cgi]$ ./test.rbx 
(offline mode: enter name=value pairs on standard input)
junk=test
/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/cgi/session.rb:108:in `initialize': session_id
`a_test' is invalid (ArgumentError)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.6/cgi/session.rb:51:in `new'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.6/cgi/session.rb:51:in `initialize'
        from ./test.rbx:8:in `new'
        from ./test.rbx:8


-- Dan


Alan Chen <alan@digikata.com> wrote in message news:<20020220234346.GA4224@digikata.com>...
> 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
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> >