Hi, you'll have to give us more background information. I hope to get you right but using globals to pass things between request doesn't work because you can never tell which Apache-Child is used. This is true e.g. mp1 and mp2 with apache in prefork mode.
Take this: 1. Apache-starts and forks to Apache-Children 1 and 2 2. User1 hits Apache-Child 1 and sets the global $FOO from 0 to 1 3. User2: 3.a. hits Apache-Child 2 and $FOO is 0 because User1 has set $FOO in Apache-Child2 or 3.b. hits Apache-Child 1 and $FOO is 1 because User1 has set $FOO to 1 When running with mp2 and worker mpm the case is slightly different: 1. Apache-starts and starts Apache-Child 1 which spawn Thread 1.1 and Thread 1.2 and Apache-Child 2 which spawn Thread 2.1 and Thread 2.2 2. User1 hits Apache-Child 1 Thread 1.1 and sets the global $FOO from 0 to 1 which is shared between the threads 3. User2 3.a. hits Apache-Child 1 Thread 1.2 $FOO is 1 because User1 has set $FOO to 1 3.b. hits Apache-Child 2 Thread 2.1 or Thread 2.2 $FOO is 0 because User1 has set $FOO to 1 in thread 1.1 and 1.2. See: http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/handlers/server.html#Server_Life_Cycle Essentially this means: You'll have to store the values you want to pass from user1 to user2 using some sort of persitence/cache system like e.g. BerkleyDB, shm, the filesystem, a database, ... . http://sourceforge.net/projects/perl-cache/ Hope that helps. Tom > Greetings, > > I'm having a problem with a script when accessed by multipile users. > The script remembers the variables used by one user and passes them on to > another user. > What would be the best way to avoid this? Use sessions and hold the > variables in a uniqe hash per session? > > Thank you. > > -- GMX ProMail mit bestem Virenschutz http://www.gmx.net/de/go/mail +++ Empfehlung der Redaktion +++ Internet Professionell 10/04 +++ -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
