How to capture the session key for an anonymous user (django 1.6)

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Am trying to keep track of AnonymousUsers by their session information (if possible).

In older versions of Django, I could do something like:

def my_view(request): # in case the user wasn't logged in, create/save a session if not request.session.session_key: request.session.save() # would give me the key and on the next load it would persist session_key = request.session.session_key

But with 1.6 (and I've been out of the game for a while) this results in a new unique session ID each time the request is put through. There is no persistence. I've tried to do a little reading but am going in circles as I'm out of Django practice.

How do I have a session persist? Do I need to write my own cookie handling?

[django session key changing upon authentication][1] [1]: stackoverflow.com/a/14757138/1978033 — John
– John, Commented Aug 25, 2014 at 0:33
Thanks for the link - tried overriding the cycle_key method but it doesn't appear that is being called at all when an anonymous user refreshes a page ... at each refresh I am getting an empty session_key. — thornomad
– thornomad, Commented Aug 25, 2014 at 1:57

thornomad · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-25 03:38:01Z

So, after I started reading through the source code I found myself on the global_settings.py file and found this gem:

SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST = True

When I added that to the settings.py file my problems were solved. AnonymousUsers got a session_key. Yipee!

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