I am successful in retrieving a past session, ...
Are you sure?   CGI::Session will hand you back a session object every time, but it may be a newly created session.   I got myself so confused by this that I had to go find the $session->is_new() method just so I could tell.

If you close the window but are using cookie's to 'remember' the session id then indeed the session id will be sent to the server when you re-invoke the CGI.   All should work.   Are you using cookie's?     (That was the meaning behind my mention of $session->header() above)

Name of the cookie and query string parameters are assumed to be CGISESSID by default.
If you are embedding the session id value in the query string, like so 
    http://.../cgi-bin/test.pl?CGISESSID=1206ccd6ed4e985a6640b9943d419410
then the session id value should get picked up by CGI.pm and found by CGI::Session and again all should be well.   Are you including the session id in any links from one page to another page?

But as you mention CGI::Application you are likely using or planning to use forms.   You would need to embed the session id as a hidden value in one of your forms.   If you want CGI::Session to find it you would have to name the hidden field 'CGISESSID', as you mention.   You could "view source" from your browser to make sure you are actually getting this information into your form.

They key to all this is knowing when the session id value is getting _back_ to your CGI for CGI::Session to find.   The more I look/test my own app the more I am convinced my leftover files are from abandoned transactions.   (I think the CGI::Session docs ought to mention the need for something like a cron job to clean up old left-over files every so often.)

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

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