I am in need of the Monks' experience once again,

Simple question really - I am working on a web application using mod_perl and I find that I am at a point where I need some session persistant data.

I am looking at CGI::Session and Apache::Session and was wondering what kind of experience people have had with the two, and which one would be recommended. And of course if there is another option that I didn't find.

A word about what I need it for - this is an internal application which does not involve any sort of personal information (in other words security is not one of my concerns); mostly what I need this for is things like passing the output of one webapp to a different app in some sort of generalized fashion, saving SQL queries built through forms so I can paginate the results, etc.

So far I haven't seen great differences between the two, if anything CGI::Session seems a bit more featureful... any words of advice?

In reply to mod_perl and sessions by glwtta

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