Thank you samtregar

1. Is the cookie being sent back to the server by the client?

Yes it is.

2. Is the session setup code in your super class running?

Here's the entire Super class. I don't believe there could be anything in another module that would be overwriting it (there's nothing that resets the session cookie--it's all done in Super):

package Super;

use warnings;
use strict;

use base 'CGI::Application';
use CGI::Application::Plugin::Redirect;
use CGI::Application::Plugin::Session;
use HTML::Template;


sub cgiapp_init {
   my $self = shift;
      
   (my $http_host  = $ENV{'HTTP_HOST'}) =~ s/(www.)([a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+)/
+$2/;

   #--- Sessions & Cookies 
   $self->session_config(
                         COOKIE_PARAMS => { -name     => 'MY_SESSID',
                                            -expires  => '+8h',
                                            -path     => '/',
                                            -domain   => ".".$http_hos
+t,
                                          },
                         SEND_COOKIE   => 1,
                         );
}
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What's up with the -domain stuff? I think that could be your problem. Try removing it or replacing it with something static. Also, check that the clock on your webserver isn't more than 8h off (I've seen it happen!) since you're setting a pretty short expiration.

Are you sure you don't have a cgiapp_init() defined in one of your sub-classes? Maybe add a warn() in the super class one and see that it actually prints when you run both sub-classes.

-sam

Thanks Sam.

Two questions:

1. What would something "static" look like for -domain or should I just kill the attribute?
2. Dumb question of the day: so in any given instance, I can only have one cgiapp_init? I.e., one in my working module and one in the Super will overwrite each other? Makes perfect sense. Unfortunately, that's not what's happening here. But good to know. Duh!
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