Re: How to troubleshoot session handling?

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allen haim wrote:

>wget -S gives me:
>
>---------------
>1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>2 Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:01:31 GMT
>3 Server: Embperl/2.0rc2 Apache/2.0.52 (Unix) mod_perl/1.999.21
>Perl/v5.8.5
>4 Content-Length: 142
>5 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
>6 Connection: Keep-Alive
>7 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
>----------------
>
>so there is nothing about a session.
>  
>
so, no way for your browser to return one - sessions are definetly broken.

>The file I am trying to serve is allen.html:
>
>------------------
>[-
>$a = 2;
>$b = 3;
>$udat{'allen'} = 'hello';
>-]
>
><p>hi.
>-------------------
>
>I simply can't remember how I had it before -- is the above supposed to set
>a cookie immediately?
>  
>
yes - the assignment to the udat hash element should cause session
handling to start and the SET-COOKIE header to be sent.

>Incidentally, I looked inside %udat earlier, and noticed that someone had
>set the _session_id field set to 2515f2069584f2fe5b4fccd144e1f207. So, some
>magic is clearly going on.
>  
>
look at your session directory and see if it contains any sessions.
look at this particular session number to see if anything is set.

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