You need to 1. make sure that C::S is using the session ID to pull the previous session for a given user, and 2. make sure that the session ID is getting output to the user.

You can do 1. in two ways:

As far as 2., your best bet is to always, no matter what, print your header as including a cookie containing the CGISESSID (or whatever you've decided to name it).

Of course, this will bomb miserably for users sans cookies. Be aware of this and consider testing for cookie usage and/or appending the ID to URLs and form variables (a PITA IMO).


In reply to Re: Using CGI::Session for authentication by rlucas
in thread Using CGI::Session for authentication by thekestrel

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