I have to write a small, shopping cart-esque CGI application for a web site. It shouldn't get much traffic--fifty hits a day would be a lot. It needs to remember some additional information (a user-provided string associated with each item in the cart), so I probably can't use an over-the-counter solution for the shopping cart itself. What I'm wondering about is the session management.

Because of privacy concerns by many people and size limits, I doubt I'll be able to use cookies. So I'll need a server-side mechanism (probably based on having the session ID in the URL) that's cross-server (which I think eliminates Apache::Session) and doesn't requre a relational database--the best I have access to is DBM. (I can't install MySQL or whatever--it's not my server.) Does such a mechanism exist? If not, do you have any tips on how to go about writing one? (And do you think releasing CGI::Session::DBM or whatever it would end up being to CPAN would be helpful?)

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