Fellow Monasterians,

Note: I posted a similar question the other day, but have simplified it somewhat.

Anyway, I'm on a mission to understand CGI::Sessions but I'm missing something.

My guess is that I'm not not using new CGI::Session() properly. Here is a reduction of a much larger application. I hope someone can spot the issue here, without lots of extraneous code.

Problem: it looks like I'm setting a new session and losing my value: logged-in. Obviously, I'd like to keep the session the same, and the value.

   my ($logged_in, $session_id) = write_session();
   
   #  Dumper to file shows
   #  $VAR1 = 1;
   #  $VAR2 = 'ae83ec8591d8579c1955d3e798dde74b';
   
   my ($logged_in, $session_id) = check_session();

   #  Dumper to file shows
   #  $VAR1 = undef;
   #  $VAR2 = '1209a2de95b31a59d338f70458702860';


sub write_session {

   my $session = new CGI::Session();
   print $session->header();
   
   $session->param('logged_in'   => 1);
   $session->expire('+2h');
   
   return ( $session->param('logged_in'), $session->id() );
}

sub check_session {

   my $session = new CGI::Session();
   
   return ( $session->param('logged_in'), $session->id() );
  
}

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Thanks in advance.

—Brad
"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." George Eliot

In reply to CGI::Session appears to be overwriting itself by bradcathey

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