On Fri, 02 May 2014 01:11:05 -0700, Ferrous Cranus wrote:
> # retrieve cookie from client's browser otherwise set it try:
> cookie = cookies.SimpleCookie( os.environ.get('HTTP_COOKIE', '') )
> cookieID = cookie['ID'].value
> except:
> cookieID = str( time.time() )
> cookieID = cookieID[-3:]
>
> cookie['ID'] = cookieID
>
>
> Many times i noticed that the script instead of retrieving the cookie ID
> value so to identify each visitor uniquely it insteads set its again.
> The same think also happens when someone comes to superhost.gr via a
> link from anothwe webpage
>
> can somebody tell me why this is happening?
> is there some flaw in my code? Perhaps it can be written more
> efficiently?
I had a similar issue when using Beaker middleware for WSGI which was
caused by me not specifying a location for the storage of the cookie
database.
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