Think of it this way... when user A sends requests a web page, a custom web page is constructed for user A, and sent back to user A. No one, no one in the world, in fact, not even user A using another browser on the same computer, gets that first page. Only user A, within the browser from which user A requested the page, only that user gets that page. That connection, between that instance of the browser and the web server, that connection is a session, and that session lasts only for the duration of that connection.

Thanks for the above. It's indeed very clear and reassuring that this part wouldn't result in user B seeing user A's page.

I do indeed use CGI::Session. Now I'm wondering if I might be messing things up by declaring the session variable ($session) as a global:

package Common;

use strict;
use CGI::Session;

require Exporter;
our  @ISA = qw(Exporter);
our @EXPORT = qw($session);

our $session;

1;

package Login,

use Common qw($session);

$session = new CGI::Session('driver:File', undef, { Directory=>'/sessi
+ons' });

# $self holds user information passed from another sub

$session->param('USER', {
    username => $self->{username},
    last_logged => $self->{last_logged},
}

$session->flush;

print $session->header(-location=>"/index.pl");

1;

# index.pl

use Common qw($session);
use Main.pm
use Login.pm
    
$session = CGI::Session->load("driver:File", undef, { Directory=>'/ses
+sions' });

my $query = get_param('page') || 'main';

#probe($query);

my %nodes = (
    main => \&main,
    login => \&login,
    _err => \&error,
);

eval { $nodes{ exists $nodes{$query} ? $query : '_err' }(); };

package Main,

use Common qw($session);

# the same $session is used in this module

1;
[download]

The $session object is created when the user logs in and is loaded only via index.pl and used in other modules (called via index.pl) requiring it. Any risk of this variable being corrupted when there are multiple users?

Please enlighten me :)

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