in a Dancer application I have sessions turned on in config.yml

If the route calls template(), the session is created and the cookie is sent.

If I just "return 42" from the route without calling template(), the session is not created,

cookie is not sent.

I can force-create the session and the cookie by calling session('anything')

but I was wondering, is this behavior (that it is template() that sets the cookie) on purpose?

regards

    Gabor