# Swfobject rails 2.3.2 - get session vars

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 21, 2009, 10:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/swfobject-rails-2-3-2-get-session-vars/172458 "2009-07-21T22:24:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 10:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/swfobject-rails-2-3-2-get-session-vars/172458/1 "2009-07-21T22:24:00Z")

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Hello,  
i set up Swfobject and it works well, but there is a problem: i’m not  
able to get sessions vars through Swfobject upload requests.  
Swfobject seems to create another session\_id record in the table, so i  
lose my variables such as session[:user\_id] etc…

In “new.html.erb”, i wrote:

upload\_url : ‘\<%= swfupload\_documents\_path %\>?\_Docs\_session=\<%=  
request.session\_options[:id] %\>&authenticity\_token=\<%=  
form\_authenticity\_token %\>’,

and in “DocumentsController”, there is:  
protect\_from\_forgery :except =\> :swfupload

can anyone help me please?

Thank you very much.

Regards

Alberto

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**Author:** ![arcoder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@arcoder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arcoder)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/swfobject-rails-2-3-2-get-session-vars/172458/2 "2009-07-22T18:17:22Z")

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**Author:** ![arcoder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@arcoder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arcoder)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 12:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/swfobject-rails-2-3-2-get-session-vars/172458/3 "2009-07-23T12:14:34Z")

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I haven’t used this particular component, but I’m fairly sure that you  
can’t just put the session id into the URL like that; it’s typically  
stored in a cookie, which the Flash object may not be sending. You may  
want to look for a mailing list more specific to the Flash component.

–Matt J.

On Jul 21, 4:24 pm, Alberto R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![arcoder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@arcoder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arcoder)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 1:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/swfobject-rails-2-3-2-get-session-vars/172458/4 "2009-07-23T13:19:10Z")

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Matt J. wrote:

> I haven’t used this particular component, but I’m fairly sure that you  
> can’t just put the session id into the URL like that; it’s typically  
> stored in a cookie, which the Flash object may not be sending. You may  
> want to look for a mailing list more specific to the Flash component.
> 
> –Matt J.
> 
> On Jul 21, 4:24�pm, Alberto R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

Thank you very much for your anwser.  
I’m looking for a solution, there are a lot of how-to, but this problem  
seems to be unsolvable.

Alberto