I am trying to track users with cookies, but I can't quite get it toi work. Whenever a database record for a session gets deleted after a certain amount of time, the cookie is still there and it tries to fetch a noexistant record. 
use Apache;
use Apache::Session::MySQL;
my $r = Apache->request();
my $cookie = $r->header_in('Cookie');
$cookie =~ s/SESSION_ID=(\w*)/$1/;
tie %session, 'Apache::Session::MySQL', $cookie,{
    DataSource => 'dbi:mysql:weblog',
    UserName   => $db_user,
    Password   => $db_pass,
    LockDataSource => 'dbi:mysql:weblog',
    LockUserName   => $db_user,
    LockPassword   => $db_pass,
};
my $session_cookie = "SESSION_ID=$session{_session_id};";
$r->header_out("Set-Cookie" => $session_cookie);

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Thanks,
 	Max

In reply to Tracking users with cookies by Fingo

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