Wise men, I have created a series of forms which are generated using CGI and enable people to input data. I want to effectively protect these using an authentication mechanism. Standard HTTP authentication wont do since there is no way to logout individuals and thus, I have resulted to using a simple cookie based mechanism. What is the best way of doing this? Writing the code to read/write and validate cookies myself seems very error-prone but unfortunately I have not located any modules on CPAN (apart from Catalyst or mod_perlrelated ones) for doing so. Is there no module without requiring a framework or mod_perl to do something like this? Thank you edit: CGI Session was the way to go - thank you.