I'm still very much a beginner, but I'm starting to see how establishing a concept of sessions could be quite handy for my website. So I was thinking of coming up with session ids, which could be some encoded combination of their ip address, user name, and the date/time of that session's start. The server would embed the session id into hidden fields or cookies, and use it to determine which areas of the site are available to that user.
Is this a common thing to do? Am I on the right track with this? And if so, does perl offer an easy way to encode those three things into a string of apparent gobbledygook and back? TIA. - Bryan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
