I have a really weird problem that stemmed from the solution to the problem found here:
CGI::Session - non-stop session creation problem 
my $sid = cookie('main') || undef;
my @sessionInfo;
my $session = new CGI::Session(undef, $sid, {Directory=>'c:/apache/ses
+sions'});
if ( $session->is_new() ) {
    $session->delete();
} else {
# get values from session
}

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This code grabs the SID from the cookie (previously stored when the user logged in), and then attempts to validate the session. If the user IS logged in, then it gets the values from the session, if the user is NOT logged in, then it destroys the session (as there's no need for it).

When I use the code above in the body of the script, it runs without errors being generated
BUT
when I put it into a subroutine, ie:
&test;

sub test {
    my $sid = cookie('main') || undef;
    my @sessionInfo;
    my $session = new CGI::Session(undef, $sid, {Directory=>'c:/apache
+/sessions'});
    if ( $session->is_new() ) {
        $session->delete();
    }
}

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it returns the following error: 
"Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 (in cleanup) could not fl
+ush: Couldn't unlink C:\apache\sessions\cgisess_16a6fc56d547a55cb4ec0
+5c183c5c10b: No such file or directory at /apache/htdocs/test.cgi lin
+e 58.<br>

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Line 58 is the next line after "&test;" where I call another subroutine (that works fine, and has absolutely nothing to do with sessions at all). If I edit out this line, the error simply skips to the next active line in the code... so it's obviously being generated by the &test subroutine.

Can anyone shed some light on what might be causing the code to not work properly in a subroutine, but work fine in the body of the code?


Regards,
Stenyj

20050408 Edit by ysth: use id:// instead of link with domain name

Edit by tye: put long error text in CODE tags

In reply to Code works fine, but in subroutine does not... help plz! by Stenyj

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