CookieOverflow - 4k Session?

casper_the_ghost · July 9, 2008, 3:39pm

Hello all,

I get the following error when I stuff my seesion with more than 4k of
data.

CGI::Session::CookieStore::CookieOverflow

My problem is that I obviously need a fatter session.
How do other users by-pass the 4k restriction on session variables?

Regards,

John

casper_the_ghost · July 9, 2008, 3:42pm

On 9 Jul 2008, at 14:37, [email protected] wrote:

Don’t use the cookie store (which is limited by the fact that cookies
should not be > 4k)

Fred

casper_the_ghost · July 9, 2008, 3:46pm

On 9 Jul 2008, at 14:39, Frederick C. wrote:

CGI::Session::CookieStore::CookieOverflow

My problem is that I obviously need a fatter session.
How do other users by-pass the 4k restriction on session variables?

Don’t use the cookie store (which is limited by the fact that
cookies should not be > 4k)

And I should add that sticking lots of data in the session isn’t
usually a great idea.

Fred

casper_the_ghost · July 9, 2008, 3:51pm

Don’t use the cookie store (which is limited by the fact that
cookies should not be > 4k)

And I should add that sticking lots of data in the session isn’t
usually a great idea.

Indeed, in most cases replacing AR objects with their ids is enough.
There are cases where that isn’t enough though (like storing a long
temporary list of ids in session) in this case you have the choice of
storing whatever is too big locally (on disk or in DB) with a reference
to it in the session but it may not be better than simply using the
activerecord/memcache/… sessions. It depends on your actual use case.

Lionel