#-------------------EXAMPLE OF GETTING A VALUE FROM A COOKIE--------------
#!/usr/bin/perl
require "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/cookie.pl";
   print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
   $cookie=&get_cookie("login");
   if ($cookie ne "")
    {
     print "you have been authenticated as $cookie\n";
    }
   else
    {
     print "Somebody toss me a freakin' cookie....";
    }