Strange Session Key issue re-emerges

[Kevin Keller]

Other users have reported the same issue, strangely it seems to run fine on Linux but not on Mac. 

https://github.com/web2py/py4web/issues/562

Maybe something goes wrong dong the creation of the session key in the file system?

Anyhow, it is not only the _dasbhoard, but any app that wants to use session that does not work now, rendering py4web defunct atm. 

[Alexander Beskopilny]

line 1634, in set_cookie
raise TypeError('Secret key missing for non-string Cookie.')
TypeError: Secret key missing for non-string Cookie.

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I had that a week ago on Centos7.

The problem disappeared after reinstalling venv and 

git clone py4web && pip install -r requirements

[Kevin Keller]

nice that solves it. 

I suppose there is still an old session key file lingering somewhere in some service_folder?

I suppose if we were able to find the folder path and delete it from the global python installation that would also solve it. 

But installing a virtual environment is best practice anyway, so I am happy with this. 

Thanks Alex !

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[Alexander Beskopilny]

Python Bottle - TypeError: Secret key missing for non-string Cookie.

http://bitmapcake.blogspot.com/2014/12/python-bottle-typeerror-secret-key-missing-non-string-cookie.html

" Nearly 3 years later, and this issue is still an issue. Using bottle-0.12.9 and I tripped over it today.  "

[Kevin Keller]

Very interesting. 

I guess it works as designed, it is probably hard to encrypt non-string data reliably in a framework. 

One to watch out for. 

I guess we can fix this in our code by wrapping cookie_data into a string:

str(cookie_data) 

?

Like so:

response.set_cookie(
	self.local.session_cookie_name,
	str(cookie_data),
	path="/",
	secure=self.local.secure,
	same_site=self.same_site,
	)

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[Kevin Keller]

This seems to fix it indeed..