perl - issues with CGI::Minimal -

my existing code works fine vanilla cgi

#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use cgi; use cgi::carp qw/fatalstobrowser warningstobrowser/; use cgi::session;  ( $session, $cgi);  $cgi = new cgi(); $cgi->charset('utf-8');  $session = new cgi::session( "driver:file;serializer:storable",     $cgi, { directory => '../home/tmp' } ); $session->expire( 'authorized', '1440m' ); 

changing on cgi::minimal causes cgi::session error out

#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use cgi::minimal; use cgi::carp qw/fatalstobrowser warningstobrowser/; use cgi::session;  ( $session,  $cgi);  $cgi = cgi::minimal->new;  $session = new cgi::session( "driver:file;serializer:storable",     $cgi, { directory => '../web/tmp' } ) or or die cgi::session->errstr(); $session->expire( 'authorized', '1440m' ); 

the error

can't call method "expire" on undefined value @ /var/webserver/iris/htdocs/index.cgi line 13. 

edit: after or die cgi::session->errstr() added

new(): failed: query object cgi::minimal=hash(0x9916a64) not support cookie() , param() methods:  

not sure causes this, appreciate insight.

since cgi::minimal indeed rather minimal you'd have handle cookies , pass manually retrieved session_id, instead of cgi object, cgi::session constructor.

use warnings; use strict;  use cgi::cookie; use cgi::minimal;  use cgi::carp qw/fatalstobrowser warningstobrowser/; use cgi::session;  $cgi = cgi::minimal->new();  %cookies = cgi::cookie->fetch;  $session_id;  if( defined $cookies{'session_id'} ){    $session_id = $cookies{'session_id'}->value; }  $session = cgi::session->new(   "driver:file;serializer:storable",   $session_id,   { directory => '../web/tmp' }   ) or die cgi::session->errstr();  $session->expire( 'authorized', '1440m' );  $session_cookie = cgi::cookie->new(-name => 'session_id',-value => $session->id());  print $session->header(-cookie=>[$session_cookie]);  print 'ok session_id: ' . $session->id();