1)I am using Apache::Session::File to maintain state information (just a user_id and a few small items).
2)The man page for Apache::Session indicates that the following regexp should be used to find the session cookie. $cookie =~ s/SESSION_ID=(\w*)/$1/; 3)This $cookie value is then used in a tie statement. I was having intermittant trouble with MD5.pm dying and giving me internal server errors. The log file looked like this: [Wed Oct 16 21:45:47 2002] [error] Died at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Apache/Session/Generate/MD5.pm line 40. 4)I found that when I had multiple cookies MD5 would always bomb out because the regexp was just stripping out the words SESSION_ID= 5)I added a few print STDERR statements and the log file looked like this: in common_session_utility 0 cookie is laptop=P&admin&Hash&9fa0065cd19a168c598a6ada6ec11917&U&Administrator; SESSION_ID=d1a16efb540ac0cb16236f7782183c12 cookie is laptop=P&admin&Hash&9fa0065cd19a168c598a6ada6ec11917&U&Administrator; d1a16efb540ac0cb16236f7782183c12 after regexp in common_session_utility 1 IN GENERATE MD5 session date is laptop=P&admin&Hash&9fa0065cd19a168c598a6ada6ec11917&U&Administrator; d1a16efb540ac0cb16236f7782183c12 [Wed Oct 16 21:45:47 2002] [error] Died at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Apache/Session/Generate/MD5.pm line 40. 6)After I changed the regexp, things started working well enough. $cookie =~ s/^.*SESSION_ID=(\w*).*$/$1/; 7)I suggest that the man page for Apache::Session so that the regexp example accomodates sites with multiple cookies being set. I hope this makes some sense. Regards, Rodney Hampton
