That makes sense. To rehash for my own understanding the cookie should technically exist on the client's disk. However, I need to check for it at each page I want to restrict access too. When it finds the cookie it then creates a new session with the old parameters.
You are mostly correct, except for the last part. When a cookie is found, a new session is not created... instead, the old session is recreated.

The old session is recreated with the help of the cookie. The cgi method for cookie essentially retrieves the cookie if it exists, and SID is set to that value. If the cookie doesn't exist, a new cookie gets created (using MD5), and SID is set to that.

I don't have my scripts with me that I used to create a succesful app, but here is my advise. Start small. Ditch your home-rolled MySQL driver for now, and just use the File option in the CGI-Session module. Use the cookbook recipe for creating a members-only area. Once that is working, then apply your MySQL driver. That way you will know where the problem lies. Always solve one variable at a time. Too many unknowns always spell doom for the programmer.

Good luck.

In reply to Re^3: CGI::Session Handling by punkish
in thread CGI::Session Handling by intranetman

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