Ruby on Rails

On Jan 4, 8:48 am, Fc Ca <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> I have used restful_authentication to implement a login system and it
> works fine except that every couple of weeks I can't login when I use
> IE; it works fine when I use other browsers! The problem goes away after
> a few hours! It seems to me somehow sometimes after logging in, the
> session variable is not set!
>
apparently IE has quirks when setting a cookie at the same time as
redirecting. Some say that setting a P3P header help (see comments on
http://jhottengineering.blogspot.com/2009/02/ie-post-and-redirect-errors.html
for example)

Fred
> I have the following code for create action in my sessions_controller.rb
>
>   def create
>     logout_keeping_session!
>     user = User.authenticate(params[:login], params[:password])
>
>     if user
>       self.current_user = user
>       new_cookie_flag = (params[:remember_me] == "1")
>       handle_remember_cookie! new_cookie_flag
>
>       redirect_to '/sessions/home'
>     else
>       note_failed_signin
>       @login       = params[:login]
>       @remember_me = params[:remember_me]
>
>       redirect_to "/sessions/login"
>     end
> end
>
> Can redirect_to '/sessions/home' cause the problem with the session
> variable and erase its value?
>
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