Re: [mv] I'm losing session somehow

[Todd Benson <todd@ehawaiigov.org>]

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Barry,

I looked into my pages to see if I was missing form tags around my continue shopping button
and I am not.  What is strange is that I have the same shopping cart set up on two different
machines and one acts correctly (the one without SSL) and the other one doesn't.  What I
have noticed is that the session id does get passed correctly from the basket page to the
page that appears after clicking on the Continue Shopping button.  So I am not quite sure
that is the problem, but I am far from an expert.  But what happens is that on the page that
appears after clicking the Continue Shopping button (we'll call it the post-Continue page),
there are hyperlinks that say 'buy me'.  The minivend tag behind those links is:

<A HREF="[area order [item-code]]">buy now <IMG SRC="template/cart.png" BORDER=0></A>

On my machine that uses SSL for Cybercash, this AHREF evaluates to a new session id plus the
mv_arg number for this product.  But on my non-SSL machine, it evaluates to only the mv_arg
parameter minus a new session id.  Do you have an idea as to why this happens.  The correct
session id is passed to the post-Continue page, yet a new session id is assigned within the
above HREF.  I hope that I explained this well enough.

Todd Benson

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"Barry Treahy, Jr." wrote:

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> Todd, this was just hashed out today on the list with another person...  Check all of
> your tag references, as the earlier person today missed their form tag.  You've probably
> done the same thing on the continue shopping button...
>
> Barry
>
> Todd Benson wrote:
>
> > ******    message to minivend-users from Todd Benson <todd@ehawaiigov.org>     ******
> >
> > Here's my challenge.  I'm losing session in a very predictable, yet
> > weird way.  After I have ordered an item (now there is that one item in
> > the basket), I am taken to the basket which contains that one item.
> > Then I click on the Continue Shopping button and I am taken back to the
> > flypage or results.html page.  I them click on "buy item" and am taken
> > to the basket.  I now have a new session id and the basket is missing
> > the original item that I ordered.  I seem to be generating a new session
> > id not when I click the Continue Shopping button, but when I click the
> > buy button again.  This phenomenon only happens if there is one item in
> > the cart.  If I can get two separate items in the cart by clicking on
> > links to go to different categories and order items that way, then
> > I retain session.  So in summary, I'm losing session after I click
> > Continue Shopping button on the basket, then I am taken to the page that
> > I was on previously before I initially clicked the buy this button, and
> > I click buy again and I lose session and the basket is empty.  This only
> > happens if one item is in the basket.  If more than one item is in the
> > basket, I always retain session no matter what I do.  Any suggestions?
> >
> > Todd Benson
> >
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