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

Punter punter at punter.gr
Sun Mar 3 15:53:29 GMT 2013


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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