From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2002-02-22T01:30:19+09:00
Subject: Re: dang it, CGI::Session is broken again

I retested that script on my side, when I entered a session_id, the id didn't have
an underscore in it.  When I remove the underscore, it works on my system. With the
underscore, I get an internal server error, hmmm..

-- alan


On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:58:49PM +0900, Dan McNulty wrote:
> 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
> > > -------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> 

-- 
Alan Chen
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