Hi, i am setting a session dat in 1 file and trying to retrieve in another file. Not able to get the stored data. Need help. i can see the session file being created in the folder mentioned.

session1.pl 

#!"\TBD\xampp\perl\bin\perl.exe"
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI;
use CGI::Session;

my $cgi = new CGI;


# Object initialization:

    my $session = new CGI::Session("driver:File", undef, {Directory=>'
+d:/TBD'});

    # getting the effective session id:
    my $sessionid = $session->id();
    #print "$sessionid \n";

    my $cookie = $cgi->cookie(CGISESSID => $session->id);
    print $cgi->header( -cookie=>$cookie );

    # storing data in the session
    $session->param('my_name', 'Sherzod');


#printf ("<a href=\"session2.pl?%s=%s\">click me</a>", 'CGISESSID', $s
+ession->id);
print<<OUTPUT;

<html>
 <body>

    <br><br>
    <form action="session2.pl" METHOD="POST">
        <input type="hidden" name="CGISESSID" value="$sessionid">
        <input type="submit" >
    </form>

 </body>
</html>

OUTPUT

exit (0);

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session2.pl 
#!"\TBD\xampp\perl\bin\perl.exe"
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI;
use CGI::Session;
my $cgi = new CGI;

# Object initialization:
print "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\n\n";
    my $sid = $cgi->cookie('CGISESSID') || $cgi->param('CGISESSID') ||
+ undef;
    my $session = new CGI::Session(undef, $sid, {Directory=>'d:/TBD'})
+;

    my $name = $session->param("my_name");


exit (0);

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In reply to cgi::session issue with session data retrival by saifuddin786

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