Re: Are CGI::Session session files removed automatically?

Hello All,


A few weeks ago, I asked how to delete the cgi session files, saved  
on disk via the CGI::Session::file driver. I was pointed to the,  
"find" method docs, which suggested trying:

        CGI::Session->find( sub {} );

as a way to remove old session files. This doesn't seem to do a  
thing, so I tried a variation of the next example:


CGI::Session->find( \&purge );
     sub purge {
         my ($session) = @_;
         next if $session->empty;    # <-- already expired?!
         if ( ($session->ctime + 3600*240) <= time() ) {
             $session->delete() or warn "couldn't remove " . $session- 
 >id . ": " . $session->errstr;
         }
     }


This, also didn't work - two points. commenting out the,

        next if $session->empty;    # <-- already expired?!

At least allowed my program to run (no errors reported?!) :)

The other point was that CGI::Session by default was looking in the "/ 
tmp" directory for these old session files. I received numerous  
errors like this:

        [Sun May 28 23:20:30 2006] script.cgi: couldn't remove  
c7d30b81e15465627d7b955ab33dacfd: flush(): couldn't remove session  
data: remove(): couldn't unlink '/tmp/ 
cgisess_0d9e96e65ba2691b8016d97920e74c6f': Operation not permitted  
at /This/Here/App.pm line 528.

Which is CGI::Session trying to remove files that aren't owned by  
whatever is executing my app. Usually, when I run CGI::Session, I set  
an explicit directory to save my session files into, ala:

        require CGI::Session;
         my $session = new CGI::Session(undef, undef, {Directory=>'/ 
home/myaccount/sessions'});


How do I pass this directory to CGI::Session, when using the find  
method?

I tried something like:

        CGI::Session->Directory('/home/myaccount/sessions');

But that doesn't seem to work.

Cheers,

Justin



        

On May 16, 2006, at 10:09 PM, Justin Simoni wrote:

> Thanks! I'll give this a shot and report my findings;
>
> Justin Simoni
>
> On May 16, 2006, at 9:38 PM, Sherzod Ruzmetov wrote:
>
>> Look up find() in CGI::Session 4.x. It wasn't thouroughly tested,  
>> but the
>> purpose of find() is to make the cleanup task easier.
>>
>> Give it a shot. We'd appreciate the feedback.
>>
>>
>> Sherzod
>>
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>>> removed automatically?
>>>
>>>
>>> Heya,
>>>
>>> In previous versions of CGI::Session (ver. 3.x?) the default, "file"
>>> driver would not automatically remove session files that were
>>> expired. Is this still true in 4.13? In past versions, I used my own
>>> outside thingy to remove expired session files. If this isn't done
>>> automatically by CGI::Session, is there a similar routine I can use
>>> to remove these session files?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Justin Simoni
>>>
>>>
>>>
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