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Simone Gianni resolved LABS-379.
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Resolution: Fixed
> [web] Cookie "lag"
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> Key: LABS-379
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LABS-379
> Project: Labs
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Magma
> Affects Versions: Current
> Reporter: Simone Gianni
> Assignee: Simone Gianni
> Fix For: Current
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> A cookie is sent to the browser, and the browser send it back to the server
> on the next request.
> This has created a difference in cookie handling when compared to other
> "state" variables. If a web app writes something in the session, and the
> reads it back, it will obtain the latest written value. On the opposite, if
> the application writes a cookie, it will still read the "old" (potentially
> missing) cookie untile the next request.
> IMHO this approach impairs cookie usage. Think for example about storing in a
> cookie the preferred user language. When the user clicks on a language, the
> corresponding handler will set a cookie, then other components will read that
> cookie if present to present their contents in the right language. This
> works, except in the same request the user clicked on the language, so you
> have to store the new language BOTH as a cookie and as something else (like
> session or request attribute) and then multiply checks along the code, which
> makes it complex for no real reason.
> The situation where you really want to compare en incoming cookie with an
> outgoing one is quite rare.
> So, it would be better to mask this cookie peculiarity, which is an
> implementation side effect, and have cookies behave like "remote session
> attributes".
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