In keeping with the spirit of self-security, I'm curious about the viability of an idea where CGI::Carp can be used to choose whether to output perl errors to the browser based on the existence of a cookie or an IP address. This part is irrelevant--the problem is that I can't get perl to import conditionally. Here, the idea is that the typical perl cgi script might start with: 

BEGIN {
    use CGI;
    $query = new CGI;
    $user = $query->cookie('acct');
    if ($user eq "foobar") {
        use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); # ALWAYS IMPORTS
    }
}

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The problem is that perl sees the fatalsToBrowser line and imports the function, regardless of the if statement. I can't seem to conditionally choose to import the function.

ideas?

Dan Heller
http://www.danheller.com

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