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Very strange.... Exceptions cause loss of user session when debugging is on. Is it Phalcon or is it me?

Hi,

I wonder if anyone else has encountered the following behaviour.

I use PHPEd remote debugger when developing. Every time when my application throws an exception and it is caught by PHPEd, AND I decide to terminate script execution, I lose user session.

If I let the execution continue, session is preserved.

Session is not lost when debugger is off and it does not matter if exception is left unhandled.

I have never seen anything similar in all my years dealing with remote debugging. So, my question is - could it be that Phalcon's session handler "forgets" the session variables when exception is thrown and execution is aborted from within the IDE?

Thanks, Temuri



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Is it possible for you to see $_SESSION and $_COOKIE before and after the exception is thrown? Is it possible PHPEd is flushing $_SESSION or $_COOKIE?



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Yes, I can see both $_SESSION and $_COOKIE after an exception is thrown and execution is halted. I am absolutely positive that PHPEd does not flush any superglobals - I've been debugging Exceptions for a long time and never experienced anything similar. Clearly, it's something inside Phalcon extension.

I can reliably reproduce this behaviour, if anyone from development team wants to have a closer look.



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The only thing Phalcon does is update the _SESSION super-global when you call session->set/session->get, there is no way that Phalcon could affect a debugger behavior:

https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/blob/master/ext/session/adapter.c#L181 https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/blob/master/ext/session/adapter.c#L218



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