Rails - Mar 2007 - Need to maintiain session with requests from Flash movie

My application has a flash element in it which makes a couple of
different requests which need to maintain the session. Since flash
movies don''t seem to send the session cookie, I''ve had to pass
in
Rails'' session_id and append that to the querystring of the URLs Flash
requests.

Problem is that works for the first type of request which is a GET.
With the POST request (which uploads a file) Rails ignores the
session_id I supply and I get a new session_id.

I don''t know if the session_id should be passed in as post data rather
than in the querystring for POST requests but due to a limitation in
how Flash does these uploads, the querystring is the only way I can do
it.

One solution would be to manually get Rails to use the right
session_id when it finds that parameter in the URL but I don''t know if
that''s possible.

Thanks


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On 12 Mar 2007, at 12:54, David North wrote:
> My application has a flash element in it which makes a couple of
> different requests which need to maintain the session. Since flash
> movies don''t seem to send the session cookie, I''ve had to
pass in
> Rails'' session_id and append that to the querystring of the URLs
Flash
> requests.
>
> Problem is that works for the first type of request which is a GET.
> With the POST request (which uploads a file) Rails ignores the
> session_id I supply and I get a new session_id.
>
> I don''t know if the session_id should be passed in as post data
rather
> than in the querystring for POST requests but due to a limitation in
> how Flash does these uploads, the querystring is the only way I can do
> it.
>
> One solution would be to manually get Rails to use the right
> session_id when it finds that parameter in the URL but I don''t
know if
> that''s possible.
Use the hack described at:
http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2006/12/09/getting-the-_session_id-from- 
swfupload/

Best regards

Peter De Berdt


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Many thanks Peter, that was just what I was looking for.

David


On Mar 12, 12:02 pm, Peter De Berdt
<peter.de.be...-LPO8gxj9N8aZIoH1IeqzKA@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On 12 Mar 2007, at 12:54, David North wrote:
>
>
>
> > My application has a flash element in it which makes a couple of
> > different requests which need to maintain the session. Since flash
> > movies don''t seem to send the session cookie, I''ve
had to pass in
> > Rails'' session_id and append that to the querystring of the
URLs Flash
> > requests.
>
> > Problem is that works for the first type of request which is a GET.
> > With the POST request (which uploads a file) Rails ignores the
> > session_id I supply and I get a new session_id.
>
> > I don''t know if the session_id should be passed in as post
data rather
> > than in the querystring for POST requests but due to a limitation in
> > how Flash does these uploads, the querystring is the only way I can do
> > it.
>
> > One solution would be to manually get Rails to use the right
> > session_id when it finds that parameter in the URL but I
don''t know if
> > that''s possible.
>
> Use the hack described
at:http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2006/12/09/getting-the-_session_id-from-
> swfupload/
>
> Best regards
>
> Peter De Berdt

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