Hi, I recently switched to the cookie session store for my rails app, and I am wondering how I can access some kind of unique identifier for each session between requests. It used to be (when I was using active record store) that the session id was set and that string didn''t change between requests. Now, of course, the session id does change between requests because that is where the session data is stored. However, rails must be setting some unique identifier in this encrypted string, otherwise there wouldn''t be any session tracking. How can I access such a unique identifier? I realize I get just set a variable, but it seems pointless to redo something that is already being handled by rails. FYI, I was using the session_id to track the number of plays of a given song on my site, in order to know how many times a song was played by a unique user I track their session id in the database. Thanks for any info. Sean --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Frederick Cheung
2008-May-27 17:16 UTC
Re: session question - unique identifier in cookie store?
On 27 May 2008, at 16:00, Sean O''Hara wrote:> Hi, > > I recently switched to the cookie session store for my rails app, > and I am wondering how I can access some kind of unique identifier > for each session between requests. It used to be (when I was using > active record store) that the session id was set and that string > didn''t change between requests. Now, of course, the session id does > change between requests because that is where the session data is > stored. However, rails must be setting some unique identifier in > this encrypted string, otherwise there wouldn''t be any session > tracking. How can I access such a unique identifier? I realize I get > just set a variable, but it seems pointless to redo something that > is already being handled by rails. >The point of the session_id was to connect a user to a row in the database with session info (or file on disk etc...) This isn''t needed with the cookie store, (since the cookie is the store) and so I don''t think there is one. You could probably add one in yourself. The data isn''t actually encrypted: it''s just base 64 encode marshaled data (with a cryptographic hash). You can see the entire session by taking the first bit of the cookie (before the --) and run it through Marshal.load(string.unpack(''m'').first) Fred> FYI, I was using the session_id to track the number of plays of a > given song on my site, in order to know how many times a song was > played by a unique user I track their session id in the database. > > Thanks for any info. > > Sean > > >--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---