Re^4: having problems w/CGI-Session

"(and at this point I'm doubting that will ever surface)."

Oh, ye of little faith. :-P

Here's the code for the 'initialize_session' method that's called from the 'cgiapp_init' method of the 'Base.pm' module that's inherited from 'CGI::Application':

sub initialize_session
{
my $self = shift;
my $q = $self->query();

my $session = CGI::Session->new('driver:File',
$q->cookie('CGISESSID') || $q->param('CGISESSID') || undef,
{ Directory=>'/ctrlacc/lhdsurv/session/mid_yr_rpt_survey' } )
or die($CGI::Session::errstr);

# 05-17-2005: See if following code works
# expire the session itself after 1 idle hour
$session->expire('+1h');

#Initialize the session and get the id.
my $sessionid = $session->id();
$self->param('sessionid'=>$sessionid);
$self->param('session'=>$session);

if ( (! defined($q->cookie('CGISESSID'))) or
($sessionid ne $q->cookie('CGISESSID')) )
{
# If the session has expired, reset the cookie
$self->header_add(-cookie => $q->cookie(-name => 'CGISESSID', value => $sessionid, -path=>'/') );
}
}

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Re^5: having problems w/CGI-Session by MrCromeDome (Deacon) on May 25, 2005 at 02:44 UTC
Thank you, I like being mistaken in that way :) You might want to consider using CGI::Application::Plugin::Session. All that code you have could be boiled down to the following: `use CGI::Application::Plugin::Session; my %options = ( Directory => "/ctrlacc/lhdsurv/session/mid_yr_rpt_survey" ); $self->session_config( CGI_SESSION_OPTIONS => [ undef, $self->query, \%options ], SEND_COOKIE => 1, );` [download] and it would be more readable. I typically throw that in the cgiapp_init() method of my CGI::Application base class, but if you wanted to throw it in it's own function it's probably alright. And I've never had any luck setting expiration times with CGI::Session. They never work for me. Either don't expire the cookie, or set it to expire as soon as the browser closes. Good luck, I hope this helps! MrCromeDome	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^5: having problems w/CGI-Session
by MrCromeDome (Deacon) on May 25, 2005 at 02:44 UTC

CGI::Application::Plugin::Session

use CGI::Application::Plugin::Session;

my %options =
(
    Directory => "/ctrlacc/lhdsurv/session/mid_yr_rpt_survey"
);

$self->session_config(
    CGI_SESSION_OPTIONS => [ undef, $self->query, \%options ],
    SEND_COOKIE         => 1,
);
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