How can I load a session from the cookie store manually?

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Hi all, I'm trying to achieve something a bit unusual - I want to use a session_id I have to retrieve the session object from the CookieStore. Obviously, Rails does it somehow but I couldn't figure out how. Can anyone shed some light?

Thanks :wink:

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This should help you do that http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/trunk/actionpack/lib/action_controller/session/cookie_store.rb

Basically cookie consists of two parts. First is session data base 64 encoded and then url encoded, second is SHA1 hash of session data and secret server side password.