From: Francis Hwang <sera@...>
Date: 2002-05-15T22:39:34+09:00
Subject: possible problem with CGI::Session and eRuby

After struggling with eRuby and CGI::Session for a little while, I 
think I may have discovered something strange with how they are 
interacting. Or maybe I'm making a newbie mistake, I dunno.

Here's the problem: I'm trying to set a session in an .rhtml file, 
and then retrieve it from another .rhtml file. My browser receives 
the session cookie, but the path has been set automatically to 
/cgi-bin/. I'm suspecting that this is because eruby lives in 
/cgi-bin/.

The problem, though, is that when I look for the cookie, my browser 
won't send it. Because the page is an .rhtml that doesn't actually 
live in /cgi-bin/ -- it just lives in the document root.

Has anybody else had to deal with this problem? Is there a simple 
workaround I'm missing?

Francis