Re: [Cgi-session-user] Active Sessions on Server?

[Mark S. <ma...@su...>]

Martin,

> 1.)
> 
> is there a nice way to detect all active sessions on the webserver 
> from within the cgi-script?
> 
> i would like to implement a small "who's online" feature. it would be 
> possible to store each user
> activity with a timestamp on the server and take a look at it with 
> the eye on the auto-session-timeout
> time, but maybe there's a better way directly with cgi::session itself?

If you use a SQL driver, then you can easily query the database. I
recommend using SQL driver.

> 2.)
> 
> all the sessions that expired on the server aren't removed from the 
> given directory, do you know a nice
> way to detect and delete all expired session files on the server.

Consider CGI::Session::ExpireSessions

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?CGI::Session::ExpireSessions

    Mark