durusmail: quixote-users: Cookies sort-of expiring
Cookies sort-of expiring
2004-11-15
2004-11-15
2004-11-17
Cookies sort-of expiring
R J Ladyman
2004-11-17
Thank you - that is a clear explanation - I am using SCGI and have reduced the
number of children to 0 (as opposed to 1).


> -> I am not sure if this is linked with my previous posting (Interleaving
> -> requests) but unpredictably - that is, I cannot reliably reproduce it - I
get
> -> a message along the lines of:
> ->
> -> "Your session is invalid or has expired. Please reload this page to start
a
> -> new session.
> -> Expired or invalid session: 3c2b77d527b61517"
> ->
> -> This occurs in any make of browser across 3 operating systems.
> ->
> -> If I reload the page...it carries on with the same session ID. I was
alerted
> -> to this becuase reloading should cause a new login (if the session has
> -> expired and a new cookie is issued, the user value should be blank) plus,
if
> -> I force an error or examine the cookie within the browser, the cookie ID
is
> -> the same.
> ->
> -> Is the cookie error message being displayed in error (!) by quixote
because it
> -> is misrepresenting some other error, perhaps?
>
> It certainly sounds like an interleaving-requests problem, if I read
> that right.  What is probably happening is that you have several
> different session managers running, and they do not all have access
> to the same pool of sessions; e.g. ManagerOne has SESSIONKEY1,2,3 etc,
> and when those keys get sent to ManagerTwo it claims not to know
> anything about them.
>
> Make sure the session key is getting saved into some cross-request
> dictionary/database and that you're not caching them inappropriately.
>
> cheers,
> --titus
>
>

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