Got it- added the path and everything's working now. I was not aware cookies are path dependent- I thought they were restricted only by domains/sub-domains. Maybe I'm the only one, but my guess would be that a lot of people are operating under that assumption. For that reason my vote would be to either make the default the root path or at the very least to make clear in the documentation what the default behavior is now. I punched the wall a few times this afternoon trying to understand why my cookies wouldn't persist on the same function call from one request to another, and the whole time was barking up the wrong trees.
Also, what's the default expiration value for cookies? On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 9:35:04 PM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > I can reproduce your behavior. The problem is that when you set > > response.cookies['LAST_FUNCTION'] = request.function > > you are not setting a path > > response.cookies['LAST_FUNCTION']['path']='/myapplication' > > therefore the browser assumes the scope of the cookie is the URL. > > web2py cannot set the path (scope) automatically because it does not know > how your application is exposed. For example: > > response.cookies['LAST_FUNCTION']['path']='/'+request.application > > would behave differently depending on the routes. > I would not be tremendously opposed to changing this default but I am not > convinced there is a better default. > > > > > On Wednesday, 8 August 2012 18:25:36 UTC-5, Yarin wrote: >> >> This is a weird issue turned weirder, but I've at least been able to >> reproduce it: >> >> *Controller:* >> >> def func_a(): >> >> response.cookies['LAST_FUNCTION'] = request.function >> return str(request.cookies) >> >> def func_b(): >> >> response.cookies['LAST_FUNCTION'] = request.function >> return str(request.cookies) >> >> >> def dump_cookies(): >> >> return str(request.cookies) >> >> >> >> Make 5 calls in succession: >> /func_a >> /func_b (LAST_FUNCTION = 'func_a') >> /func_a (LAST_FUNCTION = 'func_b') >> /func_b (LAST_FUNCTION = 'func_a') >> /dump_cookies (LAST_FUNCTION = 'func_b') >> >> Everything checks out. >> >> Now clear cookies, and try the calls again, but this time with different >> args for each: >> /func_a/1 >> /func_b/2 >> /func_a/1 (LAST_FUNCTION = 'func_a') >> /func_b/2 (LAST_FUNCTION = 'func_b') >> /dump_cookies -No LAST_FUNCTION cookie- >> >> In other words, the cookies are no longer being shared across functions! >> >> Please try this yourself and report back. If anyone can make sense of >> this, I want to hear it... >> >> --
