On Wednesday 20 February 2002 07:55 pm, Geoffrey Young wrote: > > If the redirected request needs that session > > data, there's a small chance it won't be there yet. > > have you seen this? I don't recall this ever coming up before (which > doesn't mean it can't happen :)
Yes, I have seen it happen. Quite frequently in fact. My investigation into the problem is how I discovered the cleanup handler wasn't doing its job in time. > perhaps your post-content code in a PerlLogHandler instead of a > PerlCleanupHandler might help if you are running into problems. the > browser isn't released from the current connection until logging is > complete, so there wouldn't be the chance that a redirect would be > processed before the session is created. I moved the session cleanup phase to a PerlLogHandler and it seems to be working, except for one small issue. Request URIs for directories (i.e. no filename specified) don't seem to trigger the log handler. I put some warnings in the code to trace its execution. The following is a dump of my logs following a test run: [Thu Feb 21 15:02:46 2002] [warn] SessionPrepare called for GET /iddb/target/index.pl [Thu Feb 21 15:02:46 2002] [warn] SessionPrepare called for GET /iddb/target/index.pl [Thu Feb 21 15:03:15 2002] [warn] SessionPrepare called for POST /iddb/target/login.pl [Thu Feb 21 15:03:15 2002] [warn] SessionCleanup called for POST /iddb/target/login.pl [Thu Feb 21 15:03:15 2002] [warn] SessionPrepare called for GET /iddb/target/list-portals.pl [Thu Feb 21 15:03:16 2002] [warn] SessionCleanup called for GET /iddb/target/list-portals.pl [Thu Feb 21 15:03:18 2002] [warn] SessionPrepare called for GET /iddb/target/index.pl [Thu Feb 21 15:03:18 2002] [warn] SessionPrepare called for GET /iddb/target/index.pl [Thu Feb 21 15:03:18 2002] [warn] SessionPrepare called for GET /iddb/target/list-portals.pl [Thu Feb 21 15:03:19 2002] [warn] SessionCleanup called for GET /iddb/target/list-portals.pl [Thu Feb 21 15:04:36 2002] [warn] SessionPrepare called for GET /iddb/target/index.pl [Thu Feb 21 15:04:37 2002] [warn] SessionCleanup called for GET /iddb/target/index.pl [Thu Feb 21 15:04:37 2002] [warn] SessionPrepare called for GET /iddb/target/list-portals.pl [Thu Feb 21 15:04:38 2002] [warn] SessionCleanup called for GET /iddb/target/list-portals.pl The first two lines are the browser's initial request for /iddb/target and the subsequent redirect by Apache to /iddb/target/ and ultimately translated to /iddb/target/index.pl. Notice that the fixup handler fires for both, but the log handler doesn't. In lines seven and eight, I re-issued the initial request and received the same result -- no log handler. However, in lines 11 and 12, I manually entered /iddb/target/index.pl into the browser's address line. This time the log handler was called. Bug or feature? -- Milo Hyson CyberLife Labs, LLC
