Django 1.5 Session Key is None
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Solution
To answer my own question:
It is still possible to access the session key using `{{ request.session.session_key }}`. However, the docs mention that a session will only be created if you've saved/modified the session.
By default, Django only saves to the session database when the session has been modified – that is if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted:
So in my case, the session wasn't being set because I wasn't manipulating it. Using `SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST` will indeed solve the problem globally. In my use case, I only needed it on a particular view function so it was a simple matter of doing this:
if not request.session.get('has_session'):
request.session['has_session'] = True
Problem
For some reason, doing `{{ request.session.session_key }}` in the template gives me a `None` value. After some searching, came across this post that mentioned using `request.session._session_id` but using that in the template gives me an error: Variables and attributes may not begin with underscores: 'request.session._session_key' My understanding of sessions in Django is that the moment a user loads a page (any page), even if he is anonymous, a session_id is assigned to that particular session. Is my understanding wrong and also, is this where using `[SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST]` is supposed to come in? I'm using database backend as my session store.