On Friday, June 7, 2013 11:28:48 AM UTC-4, Matt wrote: > > On Friday, June 7, 2013 9:53:42 AM UTC-4, Anthony wrote: > >> current.session is just the session object, which is in the web2py global >> environment -- it contains the user's session for the current request. The >> session itself does not include its own ID. If you want the session ID, it >> is in response.session_id (also, current.response.session_id). For file >> based sessions, the filename is in response.session_filename. >> >> Also, the session cookie name is in response.session_id_name, so to get >> the session cookie, do request.cookies[response.session_id_name]. >> >> > Anthony, > Thanks for the clarification. What I'm really trying to do is to persist > an object for a given session (a local unix domain socket to an rpc > interface), but there doesn't seem to be any easy way to do this. > Specifically, there doesn't seem to be a way for me to determine when a > session has been closed/deleted in order to clean up the socket. Do you > know of any way to do this? > > As a followup: I thought initially I could just create the object in the thread local storage for the current.session, but it seems that this is created anew for all requests and responses?
> Matt > > >> Anthony >> >> On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 8:35:06 AM UTC-4, Matt wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> In one of my modules I'm trying to create a local socket connection that >>> persists across a single session (one socket per one user logged into the >>> system from a given browser), and thought that current.session would give >>> me the info I needed. Specifically, we use a lot of REST calls in our >>> frontend code to populate data for certain elements on the screen and this >>> creates a new session hash for the current.session each time, but the >>> actual session is the same. The only way I've been able to get a key that >>> identifies the session is to run: >>> >>> cookies = current.request["cookies"] >>> session = cookies["session_id_<appname>"].value >>> >>> Shouldn't some identifier (or even this cookie itself) be available in >>> current.session? Perhaps I misunderstand the point of current.session. >>> >>> Matt >>> >>> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
