Hi: Round and round. Just can't recover a $sid from a cookie.

Tried count on the cookies and it returned 0 Still struggling with this hole in my program. There are three cookies associated with my site.

Fri Mar 10 12:31:32 2017 manage_users.cgi: keycount: '0' at /home/jalamior/www/httpsdocs/cgi-bin/lib/perl/manageusers.pm line 681.

    my %cookies = CGI::Cookie->fetch;
    my $count = keys %cookies;
    warn("keycount: '$count'"); 
    
    while(my($key, $value) = each %cookies){
       Dumper \$key;
       Dumper \$value;
      if($key eq $sessionname){
         $sid = $value;
       }
     
     
     }
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they expired?

if firefox
tools->options->privacy->show cookies.
look for your domain(s), press + to expand, look for cookie names.

if you are running a separate test server, make sure you are looking at the right domain

I have checked the cookies. They are in the correct domain.

I will keep struggling with this. In the meanwhile I just the sid from the cookie into the $sid variable in the subroutine so I can keep working. V hange to 0 to get logged out.

Best regards

Well,

I think its time to show a complete program

Or get some hands on help

Some problems cannot be debugged piecemeal , conceptual holes don't allow it

Hi:

The problem is in the tiny isolated subroutine below. This code is from cookie.pm

sub GetUserSessionCookie
{
    warn("Entered GetUserSessionCookie Sessionname: '$sessionname'"); 
+   

    # fetch existing cookies from cookie.pm CGI::Cookie - Interface to
+ HTTP Cookies
    my %cookies = CGI::Cookie->fetch;
    my $id = $cookies{'ID'}->value;

    my $sid = $id;
    warn($sid);      
     $sid = 0;  #for testing the rest of program. If I put in valid SI
+D from 
    #cookie recognizes user as logged on. 
    
    return $sid;
}
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The error returned:

Can't call method "value" on an undefined value at /home/jalamior/www/httpsdocs/cgi-bin/lib/perl/manageusers.pm line 674.

Is that error because there is no cookie->id string recovered by the call or a problem with the call itself?

When I log in to https://www.jala-mi.org/httpsdocs/index.html

Firebug cookies shows

CGISESSID=16c11ce44ef8ffcfe6a5f0d74e4e0860; expires=Sun, 19 Mar 2017 00:47:22 GMT; path=/cgi-bin; domain=.www.jala-mi.org; Secure

Opening the edit dialog under Firebug shows cookies.edit.expire.label as the date/time the cookie was created and when I click Ok, the cookie disappears.

Log in again and new cookie with new date/time of creation in Firebug.

Don't know what this is.