# perl CGI to send a 302 Found response to caller plus setting
# a cookie with name=XYZ123 and value 1.
# the REDIRECT_URL points to the script described further below
# hosted at my server.

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
use CGI::Cookie;

my $REDIRECT_URL = 'http://fotomazi.eu5.net/bin/200.cgi';

my $cgi = CGI->new;

my $cookie = $cgi->cookie(
    -name=>'COOKIE302',
    -value=>'1',
    -expires=>'+4h',
    -path=>'/'
);

print $cgi->redirect(
	-uri=> $REDIRECT_URL,
	-cookie => $cookie,
	-status=>302
);

exit(0);

1;
__END__

##</code><code>##

# perl CGI which expects a cookie with name=XYZ123, if received
# then cookie's value is incremented by 1 and returned.
# this script can act as the final destination of the 302 Found redirect script above.
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
use CGI::Cookie;

my $cgi = CGI->new;
my $cookies = fetch CGI::Cookie;
my $cookie = $cookies->{'COOKIE302'};

if( ! defined($cookie) ){
	print $cgi->header() . "No cookie received.<br>";
	exit(1)
}
my $cookie_value = $cookie->value;
if( ! ($cookie_value =~ /^([0-9]+)$/) ){
	print $cgi->header() . "Invalid cookie received, value is '$cookie_value'.<br>";
	exit(1)
}
$cookie->value($cookie_value+1);

print $cgi->header(
	-charset => "utf-8",
	-cookie => $cookie,
) . "this is 200 OK, you have been redirected OK, your cookie is valid, value was '".$cookie_value."' and now is '".$cookie->value."'.<br>";

exit(0);

1;
__END__

##</code><code>##

#!/usr/bin/env perl

# create a UserAgent and send a request to 302.cgi to see how
# it handles redirects.

use LWP::UserAgent;
use LWP::ConsoleLogger::Easy qw( debug_ua );
use HTTP::Response;
use HTTP::Request::Common;
use HTTP::Cookies;
use URI;

my $URLobj = URI->new('http://fotomazi.eu5.net/bin/302.cgi');
my $URLstr = $URLobj->as_string;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(
#       'requests_redirectable' => [],
);

LWP::ConsoleLogger::Easy::debug_ua($ua, 6);

$ua->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new(
        'file' => './cookies.txt',
        'autosave' => 1,
        'ignore_discard' => 1,
));
my %extra_headers = ();

my $a_request = HTTP::Request::Common::GET(
        $URLstr,
        %extra_headers
);
if( ! defined($a_request) ){ print STDERR "$0 : call to ".'HTTP::Request::Common::GET()'." has failed.\n"; exit(1) }
my $a_response = $ua->request($a_request);

print $a_response->as_string."\n";