jdtoronto's advice is good: CGI::Session. Be sure to look at http://search.cpan.org/~sherzodr/CGI-Session-3.95/Session.pm for a description of that module and what it can do for you.

Here is an excerpt from its POD:

CGI-Session is a Perl5 library that provides an easy, reliable and modular session management system across HTTP requests. Persistency is a key feature for such applications as shopping carts, login/authentication routines, and application that need to carry data accross HTTP requests. CGI::Session does that and many more.

I wanted to also point out a pretty good discussion on this subject (one of many that I found with the search button): Secure Session ID values. One thing I learned in that thread is that there are "session hijackers" out there looking to figure out the algorithm that creates a session ID so that they can hijack a session in progress and hopefully get things like credit card information. For that reason, it's a good idea to not use an algorithm that produces a session ID by following a predictable pattern. This is probably why MD5 hashing is such a popular component of secure session ID's.


Dave


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In reply to Re: Sessions with perl cgi by davido
in thread Sessions with perl cgi by wolis

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