Rails - Nov 2005 - Problem with session cookie expire time

Hi,

I have set the cookie expire time to 1 year, and Rails seems to send the 
correct header line:
Set-Cookie: _session_id=ffd03d0308c0b5059b9e13448468d91c; path=/; 
expires=Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:32:02 GMT

Still every time I quit Firefox the cookie is gone, and in the cookie 
list in the preferences it says "valid until end of session".

Any idea why this happens?

Thanks
Andreas

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On 20.11.2005, at 16.40, Andreas Schwarz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have set the cookie expire time to 1 year, and Rails seems to  
> send the
> correct header line:
> Set-Cookie: _session_id=ffd03d0308c0b5059b9e13448468d91c; path=/;
> expires=Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:32:02 GMT
>
> Still every time I quit Firefox the cookie is gone, and in the cookie
> list in the preferences it says "valid until end of session".
>
> Any idea why this happens?
Because it''s a session, not a normal cookie. According to this thread  
they are always stored in memory and thus only persistent inside a  
single browser _session_: http://article.gmane.org/ 
gmane.comp.lang.ruby.rails/11288/

//jarkko

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jarkko wrote:
> On 20.11.2005, at 16.40, Andreas Schwarz wrote:
> 
>>
>> Any idea why this happens?
> 
> Because it''s a session, not a normal cookie.
No, it''s a regular cookie with an expire time:
Set-Cookie: _session_id=ffd03d0308c0b5059b9e13448468d91c; path=/;
expires=Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:32:02 GMT

It''s working now, probably was some weird problem with my browser.

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