Setting an expire time says when a session should expire.   However, it is only on the next attempted use of that same session id that new()/_init()/_init_old_session() look up the old session and decide whether to call delete()/flush() to really kill the file.   That much I can read from the code.   So perhaps my first sentence should read "Setting an expire time says when a session should become expired."   (note passive voice)

I've traced through the module interactions with the Perl debugger on my system because I was seeing perhaps what you are seeing, that the session files are not being deleted.   They _do_ get deleted if referenced again.   (This on RH 7.2 w/ CGI::Session 3.95)   I still have lots of files leftover because some of my transactions are abandoned and the session id's are never referenced again.

So, apart from abandoned transactions, are you sure you're setting the session id so that the next screen finds and references it?   In my program I accomplish this by using the $session->header() routine to set a cookie.   What are you using to get the session id back?

In reply to Re: delete session using CGI::Session by shenme
in thread delete session using CGI::Session by tbone

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