diff --git a/trunk/include.pl b/trunk/include.pl
index 0e8bb5e..5418ed9 100644
--- a/trunk/include.pl
+++ b/trunk/include.pl
@@ -6,3 +6,5 @@ $database = 'gnutube';
 $host = 'localhost';
 $user = 'root';
 $pass = '';
+$session_name = 'sid';
+1;
diff --git a/trunk/index.pl b/trunk/index.pl
index f0fb12e..8a061bf 100644
--- a/trunk/index.pl
+++ b/trunk/index.pl
@@ -1,14 +1,10 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl
 require "/var/www/perl/include.pl";
 require "/var/www/perl/functions.pl";
 
 #create or resume session
-CGI::Session->name("SID");
+CGI::Session->name($session_name);
 my $session = new CGI::Session;
 
-#store session param
-$session->param('auth', 'true');
-
 #read xml
 $page = XMLin('/var/www/perl/index.xml', ForceArray => 1, KeyAttr => {} );
 
diff --git a/trunk/login.pl b/trunk/login.pl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7690174
--- /dev/null
+++ b/trunk/login.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+require "/var/www/perl/include.pl";
+
+CGI::Session->name($session_name);
+my $session = new CGI::Session;
+
+#fill %querystring with everything that was passed via GET
+@parts = split( /\&/, $ENV{ "QUERY_STRING" } );
+foreach $part (@parts) {
+	( $name, $value ) = split( /\=/, $part );
+	$queryString{ $name } = $value;
+}
+
+if($queryString{ "action" }) {
+	if($queryString{ "action" } eq "login") {
+		$session->param('auth', 'true');
+		print $session->header();
+		print "logged in";
+	} elsif($queryString{ "action" } eq "logout") {
+		$session->param('auth', 'false');
+		print $session->header();
+		print "logged out";
+	}
+} else {
+	print $session->header();
+	print "incorrect query string";
+}
diff --git a/trunk/xsl/xhtml.xsl b/trunk/xsl/xhtml.xsl
index 74956f4..5b261d8 100755
--- a/trunk/xsl/xhtml.xsl
+++ b/trunk/xsl/xhtml.xsl
@@ -65,7 +65,9 @@
 					<div class="header2">
 						<a href="about:blank"><xsl:value-of select="$locale_strings/str[@id='register']" /></a>
 						<xsl:value-of select="$locale_strings/str[@id='separator']" />
-						<a href="about:blank"><xsl:value-of select="$locale_strings/str[@id='login']" /></a>
+						<a href="login.pl?action=login"><xsl:value-of select="$locale_strings/str[@id='login']" /></a>
+						<xsl:value-of select="$locale_strings/str[@id='separator']" />
+						<a href="login.pl?action=logout"><xsl:value-of select="$locale_strings/str[@id='logout']" /></a>
 						<xsl:value-of select="$locale_strings/str[@id='separator']" />
 						<img class="openid-icon" src="./images/openid-icon.png" alt="open id logo" />
 						<a href="about:blank"><xsl:value-of select="$locale_strings/str[@id='login_openid']" /></a>