No, I regret to inform you there is no better way. You can and should include add a data stamp in every session entry, you can then go back through them letter with another script.

The whole Apache::Session::* is very undocumented, though I have read the src myself a few times. By default Apache::Session::DBI will store using a frozen copy of a Base64 bit encoded hash: This, thankfully, is easily reversible.

Here is some code that should show you the values you have stored, you can use this and a few simple sql tables, to move the data out of the frozen/base64 encoded hash into a real sql table.
use Storable q/thaw/;
use MIME::Base64;
use Data::Dumper;
use DBD::Pg;
use Carp;
use Apache::Session::Serialize::Base64 qw/unserializie/;

my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname='TABLE_NAME'",q/postgres/,"",{Au
+toCommit =>0}) || croak "Could not Connect to  DB $DBI::errstr";

my $sth = $dbh->prepare(qq{ SELECT "a_session" FROM sessions });
$sth->execute();                                                      
+                                      
while ( my $col = ($sth->fetchrow_array)[0] ) {
  my %hash = %{ thaw(MIME::Base64::decode( $col ) ) };
  while ( my ($k, $v) = each %hash ) {
    print "$col :\t $k => $v\n";
  }
}

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Evan Carroll
www.EvanCarroll.com

In reply to Re: Apache::Session cleanup by EvanCarroll
in thread Apache::Session cleanup by garrison

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