Session sharing between domains

rubyonrails-talk
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I collect some stuff in my application session. I then need to redirect to another domain(not subdomain) run by the same ruby application instance (as it needs to be an SSL certificate domain). I can rebuild my application session bit by bit but it would be DRYer if I pass the session_id into the SSL domain as a param on the redirect and then "switch the session" to the new domain by invoking a before_filter on the SSL protected actions to pull the correct session. Set the new cookie and so forth

Anyone any ideas on how to do this or is there already a plugin to do this?

Cheers.

O.

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You could use single_access_token (API Key) with Authlogic.

Also, if you can get you users to use Chrome or Firefox or Safari you can use XHR2 / CORS and set withCredentials = 2 and pass the cookie to the non-origin domain (this also requires setting some headers and enabling support for OPTIONS).

If that's what you think you're looking for and you'd like me to detail it a little better I will.

AJ ONeal

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typo: withCredentials = true

AJ ONeal