From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-05-31T00:52:32+09:00
Subject: Re: [Q]: CGI::Session

On Sat, 31 May 2003, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In message "[Q]: CGI::Session"
>     on 03/05/29, Tom Danielsen <tom@mnemonic.no> writes:
>
> |- why is only the first part of the MD5 sum used in
> |  the session_id ?
>
> Not to make file names too long (Perl's CGI session does this too).  I
> believe it is secure enough.
>
> |- why does CGI::Session::FileStore write the session
> |  variables as text, instead of using Marshal ?
>
> Allow users to choose their own stringify method.
>
> 							matz.

matz-

if it were cleaned up a bit, what would you think about including my (or a
better impl) of CGI::Session::Pstore in the standard lib?

i use it all the time for cgi scripts and have found it to be really useful.

-a
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