[mod_python] Sessions + Publisher

You're missing a session.save() before your redirect.

Grisha

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Todd Boland wrote:

> Hello again!
>
> In my experiences as a web developer (I'm coming from a Perl/Mason 
> environment), I've found that the convenience of "transparently" generating 
> sessions outweighs the performance hit.
>
> I'm trying to implement sessions "transparently" using 2 handlers for every 
> request. The first handler makes sure a session is set, if it was just 
> created, it will forward the browser to a login page (like the documentation 
> suggests). More code that checks session ids against values in the database 
> to authenticate users will eventually be added.
>
> By the time a request gets to the second handler (the Publisher handler), 
> sessions have preemptively been taken care of (it's totally "transparent").
>
> The problem I'm having is: I end up in an infinite redirect loop:
>
> The session handler:
>
> from mod_python import apache, util
> from mod_python.Session import Session
> from RPM.common import web_root
>
> def handler(req):
>        session = Session(req, secret='********')
>
>        # if the session is new, they need to log in
>        if session.is_new():
>
>                # Using util's redirect will set the cookie
>                util.redirect(req, web_root('index.py/login?url=%s' % 
> req.uri))
>
> 	# TODO: Make sure sid is logged in
>
> 	# Hand off to Publisher handler by returning 200 OK
>        return apache.OK
>
> session.is_new() always returns 1 even after the session cookie is set (after 
> the redirect). Any ideas or nudges in the right direction would greatly be 
> appreciated. Thanks!
>
> -- 
> Todd
>
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