is the session hash in rails depending on the user's browser settings?

Question

my rails app provides additional data through the session hash.
while testing it in different browsers - including ff 3.5, safari 4 and iCab (which i am using because of its harsh security guidelines) - i found out that even in the app's log the session hash looked different - the only thing the iCab session contained was the session_id and nothing else.

Does it make sense to disallow session_variables?

Answer 1

Sounds like iCab is blocking cookies. Rails is generating you a new session_id for each request but all other data stored in the session is not available between requests.