[cl-dwim-devel] wui session handling and localhost

[Kambiz Darabi]

Hi,

when I point my browser to http://localhost:8080/ after starting the wui
component demo with

(develop-system :hu.dwim.wui)


I get an error 'The page isn't redirecting properly' although I have
enabled cookies.

The reason is that in function decorate-session-cookie, the line 

:domain (string+ "." (host-of request-uri))

sets domain to '.localhost' which triggers an error in rfc2109:

  13: (ERROR RFC2109::INVALID-COOKIE-PARAMETER) [:EXTERNAL]
  14: (RFC2109:COOKIE-STRING "sid" "wcspmwLEvnraTLmvgvSdZYXNdyYmUUizodKXUEhg") [:EXTERNAL]

and cookie-string's doc says:  

Domain (a string)
     The Domain attribute specifies the domain for which the
     cookie is valid.  An explicitly specified domain must always start
     with a dot. [ed - this implementation requires an explicitly specified domain!]


Modifying decorate-session-cookie to set the cookie domain to nil, if
the uri host doesn't contain a dot, solves the problem.

I pushed the following patch:

Thu Aug 26 15:42:00 CEST 2010  Kambiz Darabi <kambiz.darabi at gmail.com>
  * Don't set the cookie's domain if the URI by which the app is called in the browser has no domain


Regards


Kambiz