[Arsperl-users] Using ARSPerl to Build a Web Interface

[Mike W. <mdw...@gm...>]

Hey all.

So I'm working on a proof of concept idea for myself. I want to look
into rolling my own web interface to Remedy using ARSPerl, and before
I go too far down that road, I wanted to ask everyone to share any and
all experiences (if any) they may have had. I'm fairly familiar with
Perl development for tools and the like, but I'm new to using Perl for
web interfaces (but not web interfaces in general).

Specifically:

1.) How would one go about keeping a user's session in tact? I'd like
to have a control record for each individual user, rather than write
code to always log in to the server with a static username/password,
and then "proxy" that superuser to a "real" user. Is this even
possible/a good idea? Would it be possible to implement this at the
Apache server level using mod_perl or something similar?

2.) (a bit OT): Since I'm new to Perl web development, are there any
sort of best practices or guidelines for Perl web development? Should
I be using mod_perl, CGI, roll my own, etc.?

I've been scanning the mod_perl docs, and that looks promising, but
before I get too deep, I wanted to see if anyone had an opinion about
whether this is even worth the time or not.

Thanks everyone.

Mike