[Catalyst] Catalyst::Plugin::Session, Facebook, and Custom Session ids

[Yuval Kogman]

Write your own State plugin. State plugins are stackable (they can
fallback to eachother), and the API is fairly simple.

Look at ::Cookie for an example of some code on how to do that.

Perhaps even URI with session_param overridden will be enough.


On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 19:31:25 -0400, Jim Spath wrote:
> I'm currently using the following plugins for session management in my Catalyst app:
> 
>  Session
>  Session::Store::Memcached
>  Session::State::Cookie
>  Session::DynamicExpiry
> 
> Along with the following authentication plugins:
> 
>  Authentication
>  Authentication::Store::DBIC
>  Authentication::Credential::Password
> 
> It all works great on my site... however, I was looking to integrate our app into Facebook, and to have users login to our service through Facebook.
> 
> For every request, they will be passing an parameter called fb_sig_user, which I should be using as a session id on our side.
> 
> I was wondering if there was a way that I could override the automatic creation of session ids with the Facebook id, while also continuing to use my current setup for onsite users?  I've 
> looked through the docs and searched a bit and am unclear on this.
> 
> Thanks!
> Jim
> 
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