On Friday, December 6, 2013 3:36:28 AM UTC, Fred Guest wrote:
>
> is this possible? i'm serving a rails app into an iframe and i'm testing 
> in chrome with "block third-party cookies" selected because it's not safe 
> to assume that third-party cookies won't be blocked. iframes are treated as 
> third parties so i need the app to function independently of cookies. i've 
> done a boatload of googling an fiddling already, and it seems that even if 
> you change ".config.session_store :cookie_store" to active_record_store or 
> mem_cache_store (plus the additional configuration/gems those entail), the 
> persistence of session data is STILL dependent on the availability of 
> cookies, which is kind of a fake out with regards to the name of that 
> config.
>

Yes - a cookie is used to record  which database row / memcache key to use. 
The name of the store implies where the actual session data is stored.

>
> at this point i have resorted to running memcached putting this:
>
> *  def write(k,v)*
>     Rails.cache.write(request.remote_ip.gsub('.', '')+k,v)
> *  end*
>
> *  def read(k)*
>     Rails.cache.read(request.remote_ip.gsub('.', '')+k)
> *  end*
>
> in my application_controller and using it as i would "session[:foo] = bar" 
> or "session[:foo]". it works, but i don't feel great about it due to the 
> nature of IP addresses. is there a better way to accomplish this?
>
>  
Is it an option for you to pass a session id in the url? Unideal too, but 
perhaps less unideal than what you currently have. I think this used to be 
something rails supported, but I seem to remember it getting removed, so 
you might have to hack that back in.

Fred

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