perl file browser

[Phillip Mills]

On Thursday, May 6, 2004, at 01:42 AM, Madison Kelly wrote:

> That might be cumbersome though if I need to use form for so many 
> things. I don't know much about cookies because I haven't needed them 
> up until now so I wonder how hard it would be to store changes there 
> until the user selects some sort of "commit" option?

In Java's J2EE scheme there's an abstraction of a session and its 
identifier.  In practice, the mechanism determines whether to use 
cookies or URL rewriting as a way of tracking the user.  Usually the 
information put into the cookie/URL is just a key, with the actual data 
stored on the server, somewhat transparently to the programmer's code.  
That way it doesn't matter how the user navigates as long as the 
session is maintained.

I haven't played with Perl's CGI stuff in a couple of years, but I 
wonder if there's a module available with similar capabilities.  It 
would seem like a reasonable thing to expect.

........................
Phillip Mills
Multi-platform software development
(416) 224-0714

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