After upgrading from Perl 5.8.0 to 5.8.3 on Debian stable (2.4.23), code that was working perfectly well using CGI::Session has stopped working.

When initialising a new session, the random sessid is generated and the basic info written to the session file, so there isn't a perms problem.

After getting the info back from the login form and saving it the session, the file ends up zero length so, even though the cookie is correctly sent back by the client after the login, the session info cannot be read and CGI::Session generates a new session id and presents the login form again. This all works without problem on the box with perl 5.8.0.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

AndyH

In reply to Problem with CGI::Session creating empty session files after upgrading from Perl 5.8.0 by AndyH

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