Itīs a good pratice, but if you have a big site, use of CGI to autenticate all page views can are a bad idea. CGI have costs with load, parse, compile and run.

Eval use of <a href="http://perl.apache.org>modperl to do it. See a good book Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C (See the code samples).

On modperl environment you have Apache::Session like CGI::Session...

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