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

[Chris Johnson]

Aaron, I'd appreciate any pointers you might have on sessions in this  
case.

Cheers.


On Feb 9, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Aaron Nemoyten 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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