Ok so Iam working on this small mod_perl project. This project requires me to use cookies to maintain session info, but very small session info such as username,password,time of login. now usally I would do this by just creating a string with a delimiter and using that as the cookies value. But as I was sitting there I realized it would be really cool if I just serialized an array as my cookie value and then just used it on every sessions use. Now mind you I havent had much use for serializing data in perl so I might be wroung in the entire idea but here is some basic code to give an example as to what Iam doing. 
use Storable qw(nfreeze thaw);
sub make_cookie {
 return($q->cookie(
  -name=>'sessionID',
  -value=>unpack("H*",nfreeze(['1245','foo','foopass'])),
  -expire=>'+10m',
  -secure=>0
));
}

sub see_cookie {
 return(@{thaw(pack("H*",$_[0]))});
}

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I think that this idea should work, but Iam getting an error from storable saying "Magic number checking on storable string failed etc etc ..". would anyone care to shed a little light on my situation?


lindex 
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