Do you mean I can use use Storable to store my hash in memory between sessions?

No, but in a file.

What do you mean by "abstraction level you want".

Storable's interface is roughly "store $this data structure in $that file", or the other way round. That means it's rather low-level. For example if you have two processes, you have to take care yourself that they don't simultaneously write to the file, and completely mess it up in the process.

CGI::Session is much more high-level; it's interface is more like "given $this HTTP header, give me an object that I stored previously in the same session". That means it takes care of storage location, locking and so on for you.

What you need really depends on what you want to achieve in the end, and you haven't told us that.

In reply to Re^3: Cache::Cache questions by moritz
in thread Cache::Cache questions by vit

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