Hope this isn't a duplication of effort, but I'm learning this myself and it's a good exercise for me to work it out (plus it's a slow day at work).

Here's how I would do it (untested). Constructive crits of my implementation welcome.

#! /Perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use lib '.';                      # perhap needed if using IIS on NT/W
+in2K
use CGI qw(:standard remote_addr);

my $unique = $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}; # caution: forgable
 $unique =~ s/\./_/g;
my ($expired) = 0;

tie my $session, "session_track", "C:/TEMP/$unique.txt";
&login if (defined($login));      # assuming $login is passed as a par
+am 
&check_timeout;                   # call this in all programs you wish
+ to do session tracking on

sub login {
 $session = time;
}

sub check_timeout{
 my $now = time;
 $expired = 1 if (($now-$session)>600) # 10 minute timeout
}

if($expired) {
   print header();
   print h3('Session timeout. No soup for you')

} else {

   # serve the soup ... your code here and then finish it with:
   $session = time;          # that is, reset the timeout with each ne
+w activity
}
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Now in session_track.pm (This code was ripped directly form the Camel Book.)

package session_track;
use Carp;
use strict;
use warnings;
use warnings::register;
my $count =0;
sub TIESCALAR {
    my $class = shift;
    my $filename = shift;
    my $fh;
    
    if (open $fh, "<", $filename || open $fh, ">", $filename) {
    close $fh;
    $count++;
    return bless \$filename, $class;    
        }
    carp "Can't tie $filename: $!" if warnings::enabled();
    return;
}

sub FETCH {
    my $self = shift;
    confess "I am not a class method" unless ref $self;
    return unless open (my $fh, $$self);
    read($fh, my $value, $fh);
     return $value
}
sub STORE {
    my ($self,$value) = @_;
    confess "I am not a class method" unless ref $self;
    open my $fh, ">", $$self or croak "can't clobber $$self: $!";
    syswrite($fh, $value) == length $value
        or croak "can't write to $$self: $!";
    close $fh
        or croak "can't close $$self:$!";
}    
        
return "true";
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update: perrin's point is well taken. unique session id has some good info on the topic

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