On Dec 12, 2005, at 6:01 PM, mario ruggier wrote:

> On Dec 12, 2005, at 2:56 PM, mario ruggier wrote:
>> I would like that when a specific url is requested it sets a
>> cookie then redirects to the referring url. However, redirection
>> of a request causes the response to be re-initialized, and so
>> cookies added to the response are lost. Am I missing something?
>
> I guess this would be the give part of the give'n'take deal for the
> RespondNow convenience in so many other places. If I do the
> response setup myself, so not calling publiser.redirect(), the
> above works fine... except that I am obliged to then redirect twice
> to return the referrer page after setting the cookie, which I guess
> is fine although not sure if this means potential new problems in
> some cases.

Are you saying that you
set the location, cookie, and status and respond_now(),
and you must then redirect *again*?
Why is that?

> I wonder if it might be generally useful to have a redirect that
> does not initialize the response from scratch? Are there other use
> cases that fall into this scenario?

None here.