This works fine when I test it on my site (which is hosted on a Linux box), but doesn't seems to work properly when testing it on my comp (running WinXP).

I'm trying to create a sessions with the following code: 
    my $var = 'test';
    my $session = new CGI::Session("driver:File", undef, {Directory=>"
+/tmp"});
    $session->param("display_name", $display_name);
    $session->param("access_level", $access_level);
    $session->param("site_name", $site_name);
    $session->param("user_id", $user_id);
    $session->param("signature", $signature);
    $session->param('+18h');
    my $cookie = $foo->cookie($var => $session->id);
    print $foo->header( -cookie=>$cookie );

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As you can see, I want to use the contents of a variable as the name of the variable that will store the sessionID in the cookie.
And then retrieve the session's info with the following code: 
my $sid = $foo->param('test');
my $session = new CGI::Session(undef, $sid, {Directory=>'/tmp'});
my $access_level = $session->param("access_level") || 0;
my $display_name = $session->param("display_name") || "";
my $user_id = $session->param("user_id") || 0;

print "Sid: $sid<BR>
Session: $session<BR>
Access: $access_level<BR>
Name: $display_name<BR>
User ID: $user_id<BR>\n";

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With the print statement, I get: 
Sid: bab864bfd5e46898b2252e19cffdf038
Session: CGI::Session::File=HASH(0x1bc0680)
Access: 0
Name:
User ID: 0

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When I do the same test on my website (exact same script) it works fine. The appropriate access, name, and User ID are printed. I'm completely stumped to why this isn't working on my machine.

Thx for any help you might be able to offer,
Steny

In reply to CGI::Session - Problems creating session... by Steny

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