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rodry has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: (cgi programming)

Most of the web sites I do in PERL involve some type of authentication. I always opt for a cookie based authentication scheme by delivering a session cookie with the username of the person. All the scripts there after check for this cookie, and they also pull its value (in this case, username) to run the required queries to the database.

So here is the question: What are the security implications of this method and what are other (better?) ways of implementing authentication thru the use of cookies.

Thanks in advance.

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