But, if I dont misunderstand myself, I have not duplicated code in the actual code: the IP check and the authentication only happens in get_first while in <c>get_second only a cookie is checked, no?

Well yes, but since http is stateless, what happens if get_second gets called first?

I'm developing some Mojolicious::Lite apps at the time, and my layout is as follows

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Mojolicious::Lite;
use Foo::Blargh; # yadda yadda, other usefull stuff

get "/login" => sub {
    my $c = shift; # $c is the controller object
    $c->render('login'); # renders templates/login.html.ep
};

# this sub checks username and password
post "/login" => sub {
    validate_user(shift); # the sub gets the controller
};

get "/logout" => sub {
    my $c = shift;
    $c->cookie(MySession => 'none'); # unset cookie
    $c->redirect_to("/login");
};

# with the following, all following routes require 
# a logged-in user and a proper cookie

under sub {
    validate_cookie(shift);
};

# more routes
get "/foo" => sub {
    my $c = shift;
    ...
    $c->render($whatever);
};
get "/bar" => sub {
    my $c = shift;
    ...
    $c->render($something_else);
};

# all set up, start the application;
app->start;

###
##
# subs

sub validate_cookie {
    my $c = shift;
    my $cookie = $c->cookie('MySession');
    if (! $cookie) {
        $c->redirect_to('/login');
        return; # important!
    } else {
        # more checks to see if cookie is valid
        ...
    }
    1;
}

sub validate_user {
    my $c = shift;
    my $u = $c->param('user');
    my $p = $c->param('pass');
    if ( login($u,$p) ) {
        # set cookie. Multiple cookies can be set by calling
        # $c->cookie() with other key/value pairs more than 1 time
        $c->cookie(MySession => generate_cookie() );
        $c->redirect_to('/foo'); # whatever is appropriate
        return;
    }
    $c->stash(error => 'wrong user or password'); # gets rendered in /
+login
    $c->render('login');
    return;
}

sub login {
    # validate user and password: database, ldap, ...
    # returns 1 on success, nothing on failure
}

sub generate_cookie {
    my $n = shift || 42;
    my @chars = ('A'..'Z','a'..'z',0..9,'+','/' ); # we use the BASE64
+ chars
    join '', map{ $chars[rand @chars] }1..$n; # session ID
}
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Works for me ;-)

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