[Facebooker-talk] Flex, facebooker, and sessions not being maintained

[Brian Culler]

We're using ActiveRecordStore for session management.  So the session data
is actually being saved in the database I believe, and all that is going in
the cookie (should be) the session ID.

I have no idea why that session ID is not getting sent.  So as a work
around, we included the session ID into the Flash Vars that get loaded into
the SWF with the fb:swf tag.  Then our Flex app appends the _session_id to
every call back to the rails server.  This forces the rails app to use the
correct (original) session.

Thanks!

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Aaron Nemoyten <swivelmaster at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Brian,
>
> Chances are that the problem is a little weirder than you think.
>
> All calls that Flex makes should seem to originate from the same page the
> app is embedded in.  So if you're talking about the session being stored in
> the cookies, then you're relying on the browser's cookie policy to get it
> right for you.
>
> Is this what you mean by 'session' - the Rails cookie-based session data?
>
> I can give you some pointers on how to make it work correctly if that's
> what's happening.  (Hint:  Don't rely on cookies at all.)
>
> -Aaron
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Brian Culler <brian at brianculler.com>
> *To:* facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> *Sent:* Monday, February 9, 2009 8:47:38 AM
> *Subject:* [Facebooker-talk] Flex, facebooker, and sessions not being
> maintained
>
> I have a Flex based SWF being loaded with FBML into my facebook
> application.   When the application is initially loaded and the SWF is
> served up, a rails session is created.  At that request, I have a full
> facebooker session object and everything is fine.
>
> However, on any subsequent *flex* requests back to our API (using
> httpservice), it doesn't maintain that initial session setup when the
> application first loaded.  It creates a new session, and the fb_sig
> parameters are no where to be found.
>
> If I do a full browser refresh of the page though, it goes back and uses
> that initial session that was created when the app first loaded.  It would
> appear that the browser is working with rails correctly to maintain the
> session, but since Flex doesn't send http calls through the browser that
> way, it gets a new session any time it makes a call by itself.
>
> Any ideas on how to go about making the Flex app be able to talk back to
> the rails app and use the same initial session that was created upon loading
> the app?
>
>
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