PERL CGI Beginners - Saving a hash in a CGI session variable

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Saving a hash in a CGI session variable

epoch

2005-11-27, 6:44 am

Chaps,

During the execution of a CGI script, I query a database and construct a hash. This data will need to be made available to other pages, so rather than query the dbase in every page, I want to save this hash to a CGI session variable.

I researched and found CGI::Session, which I installed with no problem. However, it didn't seem to like saving a hash, so I thought I'd serialize the hash first. I downloaded Data::Serialize, but that doesn't seem to like serializing hashes at all, as the output from serializing my hash is: '^Data::Dumper|||hex|^27323827'. Does anyone have any experience with this problem?

Many thanks,

Si

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