[dancer-users] Erroneous session-cookie setting behaviour in Dancer2

Rik Brown rik at rikbrown.co.uk
Sun Mar 3 15:55:31 GMT 2013


That sounds like it's working correctly. You got a new empty session and a
cookie for it. I don't think it's expected that you won't get a cookie if
your session is empty.

Cheers,
Rik

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On 3 Mar 2013 15:53, "Punter" <punter at punter.gr> wrote:

> Ok.
>
> I went to the Database and deleted the session for which I had a cookie,
> and next time I loaded a page I got ANOTHER cookie, for a new (empty)
> session.
>
> This, I believe, is a bug.
>
> On 03/03/2013 01:42 PM, David Precious wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 02:29:47 +0200
>> Punter <punter at punter.gr> wrote:
>>
>>  Now whenever I do a page any view, I get a "this website wants to set
>>> a cookie" message
>>>
>>> It shouldn't be like that. If cookie values don't change, then they
>>> should only be set once.
>>>
>>
>> Except that, if you don't send the Set-Cookie header again each time,
>> the cookie's expiration can't be updated - most people want a session
>> expiry to be extended with each request, so it times out the right
>> amount of time after the last request, rather than the last time the
>> session data was updated.
>>
>> I think this is quite common and correct behaviour.
>>
>>
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