When you tie and untie a variable what happens to the old contents of the variable?

Is it thrown out the nearest airlock or restored upon untieing?

Details: I'm using Apache::Session to tie a global %sessions hash under mod_perl & HTML::Mason. As this global persists across multiple apache child process requests (and different sessions), I don't want an accidental coding mistake to pass sensitive information from one session into a different one. I figure the best strategy is to tie %sessions in the root autohandler's <%init> section and then untie it in the root autohandler's %cleanup section.

Am I doing this the right way?

-Andrew.

Andrew Tomazos  |  andrew@tomazos.com  |  www.tomazos.com

In reply to tie and untie old value by tomazos

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