Please forgive me for this stupid question, but I'm hoping for some insight on how some of you more experienced programmers use CGI::Session.

I'm currently using this in my scripts:
my $sid = $foo->cookie('main') || undef;
my $session = new CGI::Session(undef, $sid, {Directory=>'c:/apache/ses
+sions'});

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When a user logged in, the session ID was stored in the cookie 'main'. I'm encountering a few problems though. Many of my pages are used by users both logged in and not logged in. I want to use sessions for those logged in, but NOT create a session for those who aren't.

I was using:
if ($sid) {
    $session = new CGI::Session(undef, $sid, {Directory=>'c:/apache/se
+ssions'});
# a bunch of code that grabbed data from the session
}

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The problem here is that $sid could exists, even if the sessions has expired but the cookie hasn't (for whatever reason that may happen), resulting in a new session being created every single time the page is loaded. The last thing I need is thousands of session files being generated for no good reason ;-p

So I'm *guessing* that there's some variation of this line:
$session = new CGI::Session(undef, $sid, {Directory=>'c:/apache/sessions'});

where it won't create a new session if it doesn't exist, or something of that sort.

The 3 tutorials that I've printed and previously used for reference don't seem to address this problem.

Can anyone bail me out here?

Any help/advice/suggestions would be greatly appreciate.

Thx,

Stenyj

In reply to CGI::Session - non-stop session creation problem by Stenyj

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