I was thinking of service requests, but that shouldn't generate session 
entries anyway as long as the session isn't changed during the request.

Anthony

On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 9:29:56 AM UTC-4, Yarin wrote:
>
> Anthony- what type of requests would those be? Are you referring to 
> browsers with cookies disabled? For example, this is happening on my own 
> IP, and my browser's cookies are not disabled. 
>
> On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 9:26:14 AM UTC-4, Anthony wrote:
>>
>> Are clients making any kind of requests that don't send cookies?
>>
>> On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 9:08:48 AM UTC-4, Yarin wrote:
>>>
>>> (This question stems from an issue first brought up 
>>> here<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/web2py/iAlrv6yaHWk>
>>> )
>>>
>>> We store user sessions in the DB using the web2py_session_{app} table. 
>>> Inspecting the table, we've noticed a strange pattern happening over and 
>>> over again:
>>>
>>> Many of our app actions update the session. Generally, when a user hits 
>>> the app and causes a session update, a single session record associated 
>>> with that client gets updated in the DB. Additionally, however, we're 
>>> noticing a large number of one-time 'orphan' session records which will 
>>> also be tied to the same IP, but that have created_datetime = 
>>> modified_datetime, meaning they were never updated. 
>>>
>>> These one-time session records are usually spaced a few seconds or 
>>> minutes apart, as if they were being created once per request. Some days 
>>> there are dozens of these records, other days there are none. Each of these 
>>> session records has its own unique key.
>>>
>>> It's happening in both remote production (LAMP) and local dev (MAMP) 
>>> environments. In both environments, however, no session records exist that 
>>> are older than 3/10 (Today is 4/17), so something is clearing them out.
>>>
>>> I can't make sense of this. Ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

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