Cookie not retrieving as it should in some cases

[alister]

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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