Hi Perl monks. I have a quandry about ActivePerl on Windows NT, and CGI::Session. I have a script that is supposed to do a simple task: create a session file in a folder on NT and store a value in it. Then I can retrieve the value later in a second call to the script. This is intended to be done in an internet browser, but for now I'm just using the NT command prompt to debug. Here's the script: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;
use CGI::Session;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

$cgi = new CGI;
$sid = $cgi->param('CGISESSID') || undef;

$destdir = 'd:\web\libsearch';

$session = new CGI::Session("driver:File", $sid, {Directory=>$destdir}
+) or die CGI::Session->errstr();
$sid = $session->id();
print "<br>sid=$sid, $destdir\n";

#store the variable
$testvalue = "abc";
$session->param("testvar", $testvalue);
$session->save_param($cgi);

#retrieve the variable
$retrieved = $session->param("testvalue"); 
print "<br>retrieved:$retrieved \n";

exit;

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As it is, no file is created in the 'd:/web/libsearch' folder. If I use 
$destdir = File::Spec->tmpdir;
instead of a hardcoded folder, I get the logged-in temp folder for administrator (which is how I am logged in), and the file is created & all is good. The hardcoded folder has 'everybody' listed for permissions, so it shouldn't be a permissions issue.

If I compile it into an exe (with Perl2Exe - any comments on that?) and run it from a webbrowser like I intend to do eventually here, it uses c:\winnt\temp as the temp folder value, and still no file gets created. (also no file with the hardcoded value).

Why is it unable to create a file in some circumstances? My permissions don't seem to be a problem, so what is happening in CGI::Session that it doesn't like the other folder? Thanks in advance! Michael

In reply to CGI Session - not creating session file by mwhiting

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