Need some help with sessions please...

[javiercerdas]

Hello everyone,
I'm running into an issue which I'm not clear why it's happening. I have 2 controllers: clients and programs.
In clients I have:
this.session.set('clientId', '1234');

in programs:
var clientId = this.session.get('clientId');

I have 2 routes defined so I can select a client from a list, and upon selection, navigate to a page with a list of programs for the selected client.

clientId is null when I get to the programs controller. I'm using node-inspector to view 'this.session' and I see the clientId getting set while in the clients controller. Like I said, in programs, it's null. If I click a link to go back to the clients listing, I can see in node-inspector, clienId appear again. It's like one session object per controller...

development.js is set to:
sessions: {
store: 'cookie'
, key: 'sid'
, expiry: 3600
}

and secrets.json has been created also.

Interesting thing though, if I set sessions to be 'memory' everything works and clientId has the value appear on both controllers.

Could anyone clarify this for me? Thanks!

[mde]

Can you verify that the sid cookie is actually getting set in the browser and passed along between server/client in every request?

[javiercerdas]

What would be the best way to verify this? Using Chrome, I can see the cookie getting set on first load, then when I go to the clients list, I see the cookie's sdata getting more 'stuff'... since it's encrypted, I cannot see the actual contents... is that what you mean? Thank you so much for your help, btw.