I've been playing around with CGI::Session lately, I've run into a 'question'. I can easly work around this but I don't understand the behavour. Could someone please enlighten me?

It seems if I say 

my $S = new CGI::Session(undef,undef,{Directory=>"$some_dir"});

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in the setup method in my CGI::Application the sessions are created in $some_dir, Great.

But wait, If I make $S global to my application module (i.e. use vars qw/$S/;) the sessions get created in the C:\ directory. Windows perversions and why I would make this a global variable aside, the really peculiar thing (to me) is if I test this program with WWW::Mechinize the sessions get put in $some_dir.

What am I missing about sessions? 

##### huh.pl

#! Perl
use lib 'C:\cgi-bin\Plot2';
use Plot2;
Plot2->new()->run;

##### Plot2.pm
#! Perl
package Plot2;
use warnings;
use strict;

use CGI::Session;

use base qw/CGI::Application/;

use vars qw/ $HOME $S/;
$HOME = 'C:\cgi-bin\Plot2';
sub setup {
    my $self = shift;
    $S = new CGI::Session(    undef,undef,
              {Directory => "$HOME/sessions"} );
    my $cookie = $self->query->cookie(    
                -name => $S->nane,
                -value => $S->id);
    $self->header_props( -cookie => $cookie );
    $self->start_mode('page1');
    $self->run_modes('page1' => 'page1' );
}

sub page1 {'huh';}

1;

#### t.pl
! Perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Test::More qw/no_plan/;

use WWW::Mechanize;
my $m = WWW::Mechanize->new();

$m->get( 'http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/huh.pl' );
like( $m->content(), qr/huh/, "Got expected login" );

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In reply to CGI::Application & CGI::Session by Anonymous Monk

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