[cgiapp] Problem with Flash, Session & persistent environment identified

[Ron Savage]

Hi Richard

On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 12:05 +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> If Ron can make a working demo with CAP::Flash :) ..

Go on, say it! If he can, anyone can!

> Starting out with the bare minimum (no login, no authentication, direct 
> use of $dbh, etc), I get the flash messages displaying under mod_cgi, 
> but not under CA::Server unless I session->flush in teardown.
> 
> use base qw(Titanium);
> use CGI::Application::Plugin::TT;
> use CGI::Application::Plugin::Flash;
> 
> Startmode() sets some flash messages then re-directs to function1() to 
> display the template.
> 
> Removing Titanium and substituting CGI::Application as the superclass 
> was the key to getting the flash messages displayed under CA::Server 
> without needing session->flush. Yay!!
> 
> Then, bringing back all the plugins that Titanium uses one by one until 
> it broke again, CAP::ErrorPage is the one responsible. Presumably there 
> is something in there that causes the session to be retained in a 
> persistent env?

Nice piece of detective work. Well done.

> It's possible that one of the Titanium mods is also causing the failure 
> of AutoRunmode to work under mod_perl for me, but that's another issue.

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Ron Savage
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