SPUG: Perl CGI session authentication

[Christopher Howard]

Hi. I'm about to code the admin interface for this little music database 
web app I'm working on. I need to decide how I want to handle the 
authentication for the admin who logs in. In the past I've used .htaccess 
files for httpd authentication, but I was thinking I would like to do 
authentication with CGI this time. That is, sending the password over CGI, 
then having a session ID generated, storing a session ID in a cookie, and that 
sort of thing.

Is there any cool modules or packages which make that sort of thing fairly 
easy? Most of it doesn't sound too hard... however, keeping track of the 
sessions and session IDs sounds kind of complicated.

I didn't want anything real complicated... But I've seen Perl blog 
software like Moveable Type, which stores the 
password in a config file, and doesn't utilize .htaccess-style 
authentication. (I'm trying to look through the Moveable Type code to see 
how they do it, but their code is pretty complicated and I haven't even 
figured out where to look yet.)

I've done a fair amount of googling, but I'm having trouble narrowing down 
the search to what I'm looking for.

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Christopher Howard
choward at indicium.us
http://www.indicium.us