And also, can I have a useless form to just store my hidden values?

No, if I understand you. I think you mean having more than one form in page, yeah? <form>whateveriam...</form> stuff <form>hiddenstuff</form> It won't work (assuming browser compliance). Only the params from the individual form that was submitted will be passed on.

Re: CGI::Session, anyone; for my own edification, I've been using Apache::Session with either the file or the mysql drivers with no trouble (well, some locking trouble with mysql but I figured out how to fix it). Is there a reason to prefer one over the other? I think the psychology of the namespace led me to think the Apache:: one would be faster, more stable. I have no empirical evidence either way and would love to hear stories.

Update: forgot to mention that you can do it both ways for users who don't care to use cookies. The very noticeable example of this is Amazon.com where the session id is embedded in all the URIs per page load in case you're a'scared a'cookies.

In reply to Re: Security/Ease of use Question by Your Mother
in thread Security/Ease of use Question by Spidy

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