I'm already using a local variant of CGI::Session to store data server-side. The problem is that there are two machines which run the program, and a user could be directed to either of the two (the sys admin says that each user is usually sent to the machine they were previously on, but it can't be guaranteed every time). The other thing is that the volume of users is such that it is not feasible to keep the session data for every person, and it would be better for users to be able to have their settings persist between sessions.

I just re-checked the maximum size of the data structure as the original estimate had extra unneeded info in it; it's 402 bytes (as a file), and most user settings would probably be half that.

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