Re: [Spyce-users] session/cookie questions

[Steven D. A. <st...@ne...>]

On 2/20/03 9:22 PM, "Steven D. Arnold" <st...@ne...> wrote:

> I may be having some serious misconceptions about how session works, but I
> wonder if anyone can point out the mistake(s) I'm making here.  I've tried
> to reduce the problem to the minimum amount of code possible.

I've figured out a workable solution to this issue.  A couple things noted:

1. A cookie doesn't get set unless the entire page processes successfully
(which makes sense).  That was the basic reason my sample code failed; the
code never completely ran because of the KeyError, hence the cookie was
never set.

2. If you make changes to a session, you must save the changes using
session.set or it won't save; this sort of thing is lost across redirects,
internal or external.  It makes me wish for a feature like the ability to
have a function always run whenever a page is done, before any redirects are
processed.  One thing this function would do for me is save the
session_dict.

I'm guessing Rimon may have a time-machine similar to Guido's that already
delivers this functionality. ;-)  If not, it seems like a useful feature...I
wonder if autoSession uses something like this to do its work?

steve
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