There are various authentication modules in the Apache:: namespace, but most of them only work if you're running mod_perl on Apache.

However, for the technique you are describing you can use Apache::Session, which is usable for CGI scripts.

Then you can use Data::UUID for creating the session id. Nice module by the way - hadn't heard of it till now - hardburn++

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