Re: [Cgi-session-user] CGI::Session->new not accepting sid

[Cees H. <ce...@gm...>]

On 7/1/07, Niklas Ulvinge <ul...@gm...> wrote:
> ********************************************************
> Or, if you're super lazy here's some psuedo:
> sid=cookie
> s=new session(sid)
>
> print sid
> print s.sid
> ********************************************************
>
> The output should be two lines with the same value,
> but I get different, like this:
> bbeff82a55788c38789017b1fe75a333
> 276bc36e5a9d826564131b0f0bf37a43
>
> And if I run it again I get:
> 276bc36e5a9d826564131b0f0bf37a43
> ce580941292833cf55c70984632cba97
>
> and the fast eyed can see that the second line of the first
> is the same as the first line of the second.
>
> Why does this happen?
> new must be wrong, but how?

Are you sure that your session is being saved in the database?  If you
pass a session ID to new, and that session ID does not exist in the
database, then CGI::Session throws it away, and a new session ID will
be created.

Cheers,

Cees