For some reason i doubt that. If you call a c program that starts another program via a system call do you expect the second program to have access to the variables of the first program. when you say

I did not say I did. I have done that by passing a variable to the new program

I don't consider the cgi scripts and associated modules as "different programs"

That aside, it is working perfectly using Storable

So like any other cgi program update_tables.cgi needs to check its cookies and load its session object to find out data associated with the users session.

I could have done that but chose another way

I do appreciate the assistance from you and others in the monks

I am sorry that I did not make myself clear but I thought my repeated references to and interface between units (modules)was defining.

I don't understand how you can say all I have shown you is open connection: I have repeatedly posted

sub Main {
      my $action = $query->param('action');
 {
      #warn("Request for LoginForm manage_users.cgi: '$action'");
      ($action eq "getloginform")  && do {
        manageusers::OpenConnection();
        #warn("Just before ProcessLoginRequest - create session = '$qu
+ery'");
        my ($result,$message0,$message1,$message2) = ProcessLoginReque
+st($query);
        warn("result = '$result'   message0 = '$message0'   message1 =
+ '$message1'  message2 = '$message2'");
        if(!$result){
           #warn("Tell client that login failed");
           manageusers::CloseConnection();
           LoginUserFailedForm("The Login Request failed due to some i
+nternal errot. Please try again or contact the office.");
           exit(0);
           #return; #exit;
        }
        elsif ($result == 1) {
          warn("Already logged in so send client already logged in for
+m This is in the initial action GetLoginForm");
          manageusers::CloseConnection();
          CreateAlreadyLoggedinForm($message0);
          exit (0); 
          #return;
        }

        elsif ($result == 2){
          #warn("Not logged in so send client login form");
          manageusers::CloseConnection();
          CreateLoginForm($message0, $message1, $message2);
          
          exit(0);
          #return; #exit;
        }
        };

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and

sub ProcessLoginRequest
{
  my ($query) = @_;
  my $status = 0;
  my $sid = GetUserSessionCookie();
#  warn("ProcessLoginRequest Query: '$query'");
#  warn("ProcessLoginRequest SID from cookie: '$sid'");

  #Check if it got valid return from fetch cookie
  if ($sid ne 0){
    $status = 1;
  }
  #or, check if valid return from cgi query
  elsif($query){
#    if (exists $query{$sessionname}){
     $sid = $query->param($sessionname);
   if ($sid){     
     #warn("ProcessLogin Request SID from Query: '$sid'");
     $status = 1;
     }
   else{
     $sid = undef;
     $status = 2;
     }
  }
  else {
    #Set up for creating a new session
    $sid = undef;
    $status = 2;
  }

 
  warn("SID befor new session : '$sid'");
  $session = new CGI::Session("driver:MySQL", $sid, {Handle=>$dbh});
  #warn("session = '$session'");
  OpenSession($dbh,$sid);
  $session->param("#<expires>#",0);
  $session->param("isloggedin",0);
  $session->flush();
  $sid = $session->id();
  #warn("ProcessLogin Request SID from from session create: '$sid'");
  my $sessiondata1 = $sid; #id created by CGI::Session;

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