Catalyst has drop in sessioning and such but you will have to set-up your DB/tables to match and while what you're doing is pretty common, it's not in any code samples or guides I know. This is not what I would call trivial. Any single piece of it is easy but it sounds like you're shooting for real security and that is not easy. Even experienced devs get it wrong quite often.

The main thing is what Corion said: forget about Ajax until you have working code with regular HTTP/CGI. At that point jQuery or a few other high level packages make it really quite simple. Again, it's straightforward once you know what you're doing. It's actually extremely difficult if you haven't done it before because there are many small pieces to understand. Not to dissuade, just to let you know that even with help and some prefab code this is not a small project if it's your first stab it.

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