Following some discussions on Perl Monks I decided to start using CGI::Session for my shopping cart software. It basically just stores the unique session key on the users browser, matching up with a list of cart items in a table on the server.

This works perfectly fine except for one small thing, and that is if a user closes their browser the session is lost and the cart immediately becomes empty. This of course leaves the previous items hanging around in the database which is not ideal.

What I'd really like to know is if there is someway that you can make CGI::Session persist between browser sessions ? I don't think it should be that hard and I'm sure there is some kind of attribute to use, but I haven't yet discovered.

Thanks for any assistance.

In reply to Making CGI::Session Permanent by oghran

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