On Apr 7, 2009, at 5:52 AM, edgarsmolow wrote:

http://pylonshq.com/docs/en/0.9.7/sessions/#id2

but did not see a reference to these fields (you mentioned):

session['_id']
session['_accessed_time']
session['_creation_time']

I suppose I still don't understand the problem.  If the cookie exists,
when the browser is first directed to a URL, why can Beaker (or
whichever component is involved) read the cookie?  If it had read the
cookie, session['some_var'] would be available.

I'm not sure I understand what you're talking about either. The code sample you originally included could be translated like so:

If there's a cookie already present:
      do something with it
otherwise, when no cookie is around:
      do something else

On the first visit to the web page, of course there isn't a cookie YET, its the first visit after all. So the second if statement runs. On the second visit, since they've been there before, there's a cookie present, so the first if statement runs. This seems obvious enough, I'm not sure where the confusion is?

Cheers,
Ben

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