Hello,

I'm trying to get a simple first CGI::Application::Plugin::Session program going to understand how cookies/sessions etc work. I'm developing on XP with a local install of Apache 2.2, the latest version of ActiveState perl and versions of CGI::Session, CGI::Application and CGI::Application::Plugin::Session installed via ActiveState's package manager.

I've written a stripped down version of my program that illustrates the problem I'm having:

cookieprob.pm: 

package cookieprob;

use strict;
use base 'CGI::Application';
use HTML::Template;
use CGI::Application::Plugin::Session;

sub setup {
    my $self=shift;
    $self->start_mode('add');
    $self->run_modes('add'        =>        'add_mode');
    $self->tmpl_path('../tmpl');#('/.');    
}

sub cgiapp_init {
    my $self = shift;
 
    # Configure the session
    $self->session_config(
        CGI_SESSION_OPTIONS    => [ "driver:file", $self->query, {Dire
+ctory=>'../tmp'}],
        DEFAULT_EXPIRY            => '+1w',
        COOKIE_PARAMS            => {
                                        -expires => '+1h',
                                        -path    => '../tmp',
                                        },
        SEND_COOKIE                => 1
    );
}

sub add_mode {
    my $self = shift;
    my $qry = $self->query();

    my $messageOut;
    # Load the template
    my $template = $self->load_tmpl('add.tmpl.html');
    my $remember = $qry->param("remember");
    if(!$remember) {
        $template->param(debugmessage => "No 'remember' parameter");
        return $template->output; 
    }
    $template->param(asin => $remember);
    my $session = $self->session;
    my @vals;
    if($session->param("values")) {
        @vals = split(/,/, $session->param("values"));
    }
    push(@vals, $remember);    # add new value to list of vals.
    my $valueList = join(",", @vals);
    $session->param("values", $valueList);
    $messageOut = $valueList;
    #$template->param("debugmessage" => $valueList);
    
    #my $temp;                # Retrieve session info and stick on scr
+een
    foreach my $key (keys(%{$session->dataref()})) {
        $messageOut=$messageOut."<p>$key = ".$session->param($key);
    }
    $template->param(debugmessage => $messageOut);
    
 
    # return the template output
    return $template->output;
}
1;

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and cookieprob.pl: 

#!c:/perl/bin/perl.exe -w
use strict;
use cookieprob;
my $cookieprobApp=cookieprob->new();
$cookieprobApp->run();

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Incidentally, I have a template 'add.tmpl.html' with two template fields - debugmessage and asin. For brevity's sake I haven't included that here.

At the moment I just enter the following url into my browser's address bar:

http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/cookieprob.pl?remember=tom

then try viewing

http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/cookieprob.pl?remember=mary

Now, what I expect (intend) to happen is that when I view the second url I should see "Tom,Mary" as the value of 'values'. In fact it's just "Mary". When I look at my browser's cookie list I can see cookies issued by localhost, and when I look in /Apache2.2/tmp I can see a list of files with names like cgisess_ec5c439523af2247814273d7c163921f with modified times that correspond with the times at which I viewed the above urls, and with _SESSION_IDs that match those displayed when I view the above pages. What I would guess I should expect is to see one session ID, not different IDs each time I view the page. It seems to me that ...Plugin::Session is creating a new cookie/session each time I view the page rather than retrieving the cookie from the browser.

I'm sorry if that's not a very coherent explanation of the problem, but hopefully you get the idea.

Any suggestions are gratefully received. If I've omitted some piece of relevant information please let me know and I will supply it.

Thanks very much,

Luke

In reply to Problems with CGI::Application::Plugin::Session by lsteele

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