I'm using mod_perl, Apache::Session, and Mason.

And it's not working. Specifically, sessions are not getting invalidated. I'm using the following code in my handler.pl file, taken from the article linked form masonhq: 

    # Get the incoming cookies
    my %cookies = parse
      CGI::Cookie($r->header_in('Cookie'));

    # Try to re-establish an existing session
    eval {
        tie %HTML::Mason::Commands::session, 'Apache::Session::DBI',
        ($cookies{'AF_SID'} ? $cookies{'AF_SID'}->value() : undef),
        {
            DataSource => $dbsource,
            UserName => $dbuser,
            Password => $dbpass
            };
    };

    # If we could not re-establish an existing
    # session, create a new session.
    if ( $@ )
    {
        if ( $@ =~ m/^Object does not exist in the data store/ )
        {
            tie %HTML::Mason::Commands::session,
            'Apache::Session::DBI',
            undef,
            {
                DataSource => $dbsource,
                UserName => $dbuser,
                Password => $dbpass
                };
            undef $cookies{'AF_SID'};
        }
    }

    if ( !$cookies{'AF_SID'} )
    {
        my $cookie =
            new CGI::Cookie(-name => 'AF_SID',
                            -value =>
                            $HTML::Mason::Commands::session{_session_i
+d},
                            -path => '/',);
        $r->header_out('Set-Cookie', => $cookie);
    }

    my $status = $ah->handle_request($r);

    untie %HTML::Mason::Commands::session;

    return $status;

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The problem is it doesn't seem to be talking to the db -- once someone has sucessfully logged in on a particular child, $session{userid} *always* exists even if there's no corresponding row in the db sessions table.

I have to conclude there's something wrong with the way I'm doing it, but since I don't really *understand* how I'm doing it, I don't know what it is.

In reply to Session Problems by dstar

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