The recent change to the CGI::Session

Fri Dec 17 13:33:58 2004  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu / ruby-lang.org>

	* lib/cgi/session.rb (CGI::Session#initialize): control adding
	  session_id hidden fields.  fixed: [ruby-talk:123850]

introduced a new problem. It didn't take into account that CGI#[](key) 
method returns an empty string for the nonexistent key. Please apply 
the following patch to HEAD and ruby_1_8 branch.


Index: lib/cgi/session.rb
===================================================================
RCS file: /src/ruby/lib/cgi/session.rb,v
retrieving revision 1.23.2.12
diff -u -r1.23.2.12 session.rb
--- lib/cgi/session.rb  17 Dec 2004 04:34:39 -0000      1.23.2.12
+++ lib/cgi/session.rb  19 Dec 2004 08:19:06 -0000
@@ -253,7 +253,8 @@
         end
        end
        unless session_id
-       if session_id = request[session_key]
+       if request.key?(session_key)
+          session_id = request[session_key]
           session_id = session_id.read if session_id.respond_to?(:read)
         end
         unless session_id


Cheers,
Kent.