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new

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new(request, option={}) public

Create a new CGI::Session object for request.

request is an instance of the CGI class (see cgi.rb). option is a hash of options for initialising this CGI::Session instance. The following options are recognised:

session_key	the parameter name used for the session id. Defaults to ‘_session_id’.
session_id	the session id to use. If not provided, then it is retrieved from the `session_key` parameter of the request, or automatically generated for a new session.
new_session	if true, force creation of a new session. If not set, a new session is only created if none currently exists. If false, a new session is never created, and if none currently exists and the `session_id` option is not set, an ArgumentError is raised.
database_manager	the name of the class providing storage facilities for session state persistence. Built-in support is provided for `FileStore` (the default), `MemoryStore,` and `PStore` (from cgi/session/pstore.rb). See the documentation for these classes for more details.

The following options are also recognised, but only apply if the session id is stored in a cookie.

session_expires	the time the current session expires, as a `Time` object. If not set, the session will terminate when the user’s browser is closed.
session_domain	the hostname domain for which this session is valid. If not set, defaults to the hostname of the server.
session_secure	if `true,` this session will only work over HTTPS.
session_path	the path for which this session applies. Defaults to the directory of the CGI script.

option is also passed on to the session storage class initializer; see the documentation for each session storage class for the options they support.

The retrieved or created session is automatically added to request as a cookie, and also to its output_hidden table, which is used to add hidden input elements to forms.

WARNING the output_hidden fields are surrounded by a <fieldset> tag in HTML 4 generation, which is not invisible on many browsers; you may wish to disable the use of fieldsets with code similar to the following (see http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-list/37805)

cgi = CGI.new("html4")
class << cgi
    undef_method :fieldset
end

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# File lib/cgi/session.rb, line 248
    def initialize(request, option={})
      @new_session = false
      session_key = option['session_key'] || '_session_id'
      session_id = option['session_id']
      unless session_id
        if option['new_session']
          session_id = create_new_id
          @new_session = true
        end
      end
      unless session_id
        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
          session_id, = request.cookies[session_key]
        end
        unless session_id
          unless option.fetch('new_session', true)
            raise ArgumentError, "session_key `%s' should be supplied"%session_key
          end
          session_id = create_new_id
          @new_session = true
        end
      end
      @session_id = session_id
      dbman = option['database_manager'] || FileStore
      begin
        @dbman = dbman::new(self, option)
      rescue NoSession
        unless option.fetch('new_session', true)
          raise ArgumentError, "invalid session_id `%s'"%session_id
        end
        session_id = @session_id = create_new_id unless session_id
        @new_session=true
        retry
      end
      request.instance_eval do
        @output_hidden = {session_key => session_id} unless option['no_hidden']
        @output_cookies =  [
          Cookie::new("name" => session_key,
          "value" => session_id,
          "expires" => option['session_expires'],
          "domain" => option['session_domain'],
          "secure" => option['session_secure'],
          "path" =>
          if option['session_path']
            option['session_path']
          elsif ENV["SCRIPT_NAME"]
            File::dirname(ENV["SCRIPT_NAME"])
          else
          ""
          end)
        ] unless option['no_cookies']
      end
      @dbprot = [@dbman]
      ObjectSpace::define_finalizer(self, Session::callback(@dbprot))
    end

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