I'm afraid I don't understand your code at all. If you already know the session ID, why are you passing that to $query->cookie()? I also don't believe that retrieveSession() works at all; you have a prototype mismatch that I'd expect to throw warnings, at least.

If you rewrite the function more like this:

sub retrieveSession
{
    my ($query) = @_;
    my $sid     = $query->cookie('CGISESSID') || '';
    $sid        = substr($sid, 10, -8);
    my $session = CGI::Session->new(undef, $sid, {Directory=>'/tmp/Ses
+sions'});
    return getUser($session, $sid);    
}

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... does it work better?

In reply to Re: Cookie Problems by chromatic
in thread Cookie Problems by intranetman

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