Fellow Monasterians,

I'm able to write the session, I see the cookie, but on the return trip to my index.cgi, while it reads the cookie and session id, the session params are coming up empty. I've tried it everyway but Tuesday--I might not be understanding the documentation or how CGI::Session should be set up. Here's my flow:

            User submits password 
                      |
                    valid?
                      |
            +----Y----+-----N----+
            |                    |
        write new              login                   
      CGI::Session            screen
       and cookie
            |
      next TMPL screen
          output 
            |
       user selects
      different page
            |
     back to index.cgi
            |
     check for session
            |
    +---Y---+-----N----+  
    |                  |
 write new           login                   
CGI::Session         screen
 and cookie
    |
sessionid ok
but params gone!  
    |
new TMPL page
  output

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Here's some simplified code:

sub set_session {
   my $session = new CGI::Session("driver:File", $query, {Directory=>'
+/tmp'});
   $session->param('user_name', $user_name);
   $session->param('user_id', $user_id);
   $session->param('logged-in',1); 
   $session->expires("+15m");
    
    my $cookie = $query->cookie(CGISESSID => $session->id );
    print $query->header(-cookie => $cookie);
}

sub get_session {
   my $session_id = cookie('CGISESSID');
   my $session = new CGI::Session("driver:File", $session_id, {Directo
+ry=>'/tmp'});
   
   if ( !$session->param('logged-in') ) {
      show_login();
   } else {
      $user_name   = $session->param('$user_name');
      $user_id     = $session->param('$user_id');
    }
}

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I had it working in my example where I had two different scripts, one setting the session and the other getting it. In this example, I have the one script doing both--don't know if that makes any difference. Thanks all!


—Brad
"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." George Eliot

In reply to CGI::Session losing set params by bradcathey

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