[tbnl-devel] Weird problem with cookies and startup

[Bob Hutchison]

On Feb 25, 2005, at 4:00 PM, Bob Hutchison wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been using TBNL for a few weeks and am encountering some strange 
> behaviour when sessions time out. Specifically, once a session times 
> out I start getting multiple cookies written to the browser -- as the 
> user navigates around the site the cookie, and so the session, 
> changes.
>
> I am wondering if this is a known problem. If so, maybe some advice. 
> Otherwise, I'll try to isolate the problem better so I can provide a 
> more precise description of what is happening.

The restart does not fix this problem, but it is a lot clearer what is 
going on. I still have not isolated the problem, I'll try to do that 
today (if I don't manage it today other things will start interfering 
and it'll take a bit longer)

This happens with both safari and firefox (I haven't tried any other 
browsers), though the behaviour is a bit different. In the case of 
Safari I get a cookie for each page I visited in the previous 'session' 
plus one new cookie. In the case of firefox, I get two cookies: the old 
one and the new one, and there is some sort of confusion between the 
two. Firefox is a simpler situation so I'll try to isolate the problem 
using it.

>
> There is another problem for which I have no explanation: when the 
> lisp system is first started up it takes several attempts to load the 
> page before the page is loaded (it isn't getting as far as the lisp 
> program I think). Same thing: if this is familiar, maybe some 
> advice... otherwise I'll try to describe the problem better.

The restart of Apache fixes this as far as I can tell. Thanks for the 
suggestion.

>
> I'm using Lispworks 4.4 professional on OS/X (10.3.8) using what ever 
> the current versions of Apache 1.x (for OS/X) and mod_lisp.
>
> Other that that, TBNL works beautifully. Very nice.
>
> Cheers,
> Bob
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