[Catalyst] C::P::Session and Object::Signature error

[michael j talarczyk]

solved. for cases where the browser has a cookied sessionid with no
corresponding session in the session store, C::P::Session tries to
signature() "nothing", which O::S doesn't like.

part of my upgrading must have been changing the location of the session
file. so, if your session file gets nuked (or cleaned out of /tmp if you
follow the example,) apps won't work for cookied users.

you can do the following on a local copy of C::P::S until i submit:

  160c160
  <                 Object::Signature::signature($session_data) );
  ---
  >                 Object::Signature::signature($session_data) ) if $session_data;

michael j talarczyk wrote:
> Rodney Broom wrote:
> > From: "michael j talarczyk" <mjt at mijit.com>
> > > ...sessions used to "just work". but, after a
> > > dependency was upgraded (sorry, forget which one,) this error appeared...
> > 
> > Have you tried running under myapp_server.pl? It seems like there's enough stuff that works differently in that environment that it might be an interesting test.
> 
> the error occurs using myapp_server.pl on OSX and FC4 (again, most recent
> Cat stuff on each,) as well as using FC4 apache.
> 
> i can send a patch that worked for me to the C::P::Session folks, but i
> thought i'd mention it here since my three dev/stg servers started
> exhibiting the problem at varying points during my upgrading Cat stuff.
> 
> my setup isn't sufficiently sophisticated (yet!) for me to determine which
> upgrade caused the behavior, but i'd like it to be! thanks for the assist.
> 
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