[albatross-users] Question about session variables

[Sheila King]

--On Sunday, May 25, 2003 12:29 AM -0700 Sheila King <sheila at thinkspot.net> 
wrote:

> OK, I'm working on some session type of stuff tonight, and am
> experiencing  more than the usual amount of confusion, so...in order to
> try to clarify  things for myself I have to ask:
>
> Suppose on one request-cycle I do:
>
> ctx.add_session_vars('blah')
>
> Then on the next request-cycle, if I do not also save 'blah' as a session
> variable, is it removed from the session?
>
> Do I have to save whichever variables I want to have access to later each
> and every time I go through a request-cycle?

OK, first of all, I've decided that the above statements must be true.

Except for one thing.

It seems that I am losing the session variables if a bad url is called. 
This means that if an authenticated user enters a bad URL, they lose their 
authentication, and have to go back to the login page and login again.

(As a reminder: I'm using RandomPage modules with SessionFiles.)

I see that the load_badurl_template is called in the display_response 
function in the RandomPageModuleMixin. Here is that function:

    def display_response(self, ctx):
        if self.__page_found:
            return PageModuleMixin.display_response(self, ctx)
        else:
            # Display error page
            ctx.write_headers()
            templ = self.load_badurl_template(ctx)
            ctx.set_globals(_caller_globals(3))
            templ.to_html(ctx)
            ctx.flush_content()
            return None

And the PageModuleMixin.display_response looks like this:

    def display_response(self, ctx):
        if hasattr(ctx.page, 'page_display'):
            ctx.write_headers()
            ctx.request.end_headers()
            func = getattr(ctx.page, 'page_display')
            func(ctx)
            ctx.flush_content()

So what I'm trying to figure out, is why is the session data being lost 
when the load_badurl_template function is called? What is my best way 
around this?

Thanks,

-- 
Sheila King
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