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Sensitive data no longer need to be traveling across the network at each request (which is the case with query strings, cookies and hidden fields). The only thing that travels is the unique id generated for the session (B<5767393932698093d0b75ef61437...

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User will not have sensitive data stored in his/her computer in unsecured file (which is a cookie file).

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It's possible to handle very big and even complex data structures transparently (which I<HTTP Cookies> do not handle).

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That's what CGI::Session is all about - implementing server side session management. Now is a good time to get feet wet.

=head1 PROGRAMMING STYLE

Server side session management system might be seeming awfully convoluted if you have never dealt with it. Fortunately, with L<CGI::Session|CGI::Session> all the complexity is handled by the library transparently. This section of the manual can be tr...

All applications making use of server side session management rely on the following pattern of operation regardless of the way the system is implemented:

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Check if the user has session cookie dropped in his computer from previous request

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