I didn't follow the thread, I am sorry if this is duplicate, but don't catch all Exceptions, catch only the ones you expect, so that you can identify unexpected errors:
cookie = cookies.SimpleCookie( os.environ['HTTP_COOKIE'] )
try:
cookieID = cookie['name'].value
except KeyError:
cookieID = 'visitor'
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