Help with sessions

Hi,

In my rails app I'm using sessions to store information about the users shopping cart. Everything seems to be working fine but there is one strange thing that I cannot figure out. It seems that any request (for /index.html for example) is causing a new cookie/session ID to be created. So if I clear my cookies and then visit my site's homepage I then have a new cookie. Is this normal behavior? Would you expect rails to generate a cookie even though no action is being called that would create a new cookie?

Thanks in advance, Joe

Rails requires cookies to work at all... the cookie stores a hash referencing the session which is what rails uses internally to provide various services. So yea... this is normal behavior.