Passing the session ID through forms/links is an even better way of doing sessions - in theory it will even work with mobile phones and other really small broswers that don't do cookies. Full points for choosing the hard but more right way to do it.

I tend to avoid this option because it's too much work for this lazy programmer, and because passing that ID requires the program to rewrite every single URL on the page, and for me to train the graphics designers in how HTML::Template works.

I might give it a shot next time round, just to see how hard it is

In any case, Apache::Session::File will still make life easy for you, regardless of how you pass and retrieve the session ID. As I mentioned earlier, you could even use it to do things like save peoples preferences in a command line program. Not that you should do preferences like that, but you could.

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In reply to Re: Re: Session identification (was: Game). by jepri
in thread Game. by Anonymous Monk

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