Re: CGI::Session or CGI::Application

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Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If I want to use CGI::Session or CGI::Application, can I do it if I use
> mod_perl or there are better modules for using with MP?

Just a couple of thoughts:
   CGI::Session does not appear to be well maintained. It's very popular 
and I know many people who have tried to send in patches and fixes but 
the author has been unresponsive. There is also no way to 'guarantee' 
that no too session will have the same id with CGI::Session, especially 
in a multi-server environment (eg, load-balanced cluster).

Lately I have switched to using Apache::Session (and sometimes wrapping 
it in an object interface since it's a tied-hash). It's well maintained 
and you can easily use something like mod_unique_id with Apache to 
almost absolutely guarantee that each new request will have it's own id 
and can there use that id when you start a session.

On a C::A note, I wonder how hard it would be for Cees to add 
Apache::Session support to C::A::P::Session.

        -- 
        Michael Peters
Developer
Plus Three, LP