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Dear Monks,

I am working on a cookie-managed community system but my cookies expire too inaccurately, in detail: too early.
I am using Apache 1.27x on a Win32 (NT 5.1) machine, ActiveState Perl 5.6 and the module CGI.
With the script shown below, the cookie is supposed to expire 10 minutes after being set. I have counted the time and found out that it actually expired after 8 minutes and ~50 seconds. When I do this test again with -expires => "+30s", the cookie won't be set at all.
Do you have any Ideas how this problem can be solved?

#!C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe

use strict;
use CGI;

my $q = CGI->new();

my $service = $q->param('service') || '';

&printCookieContent() if ($service eq 'showcookie');

sub printCookieContent
{
    my $cookie = $ENV{HTTP_COOKIE};
    my ($name, $value) = split(m/=/, $cookie, 2);
    
    print $q->header('text/html');
    print "$name<br>$value";
    exit;
}

my $cookie = $q->cookie( -name        => "Testname",
             -value        => "Testvalue",
             -domain    => "abroxa.dyndns.org",
             -expires    => "+10m",
             -path        => "/cgi-bin"
            );
    
print $q->header(-type => 'text/html', -cookie => $cookie);

print qq ~<a href="cookietest.cgi?service=showcookie">klick here to te
+st the cookie</a>~;

exit;
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BioHazard

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