Are you saying the problem is just that $session is always there? This code is creating a new session if there isn't one already. You aren't setting $session{userid} anywhere in this code, so I don't know what you're doing with that or how you expected it to behave.

One thing that I don't like about this code is how it doesn't always clean up if something goes wrong during handling the request. I think it would be better to put your session in $r->pnotes() than in a global, because pnotes is always cleaned up at the end of the request, even if Mason dies on something. If you haven't used pnotes before, see the docs that came with mod_perl or the Guide.

In reply to Re: Session Problems by perrin
in thread Session Problems by dstar

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