actually .. setting the cookie and defining it all on the same line has never worked for me ..
that's why I wrote the cookie this way .. I have tried both of the methods you suggested (they are what I meant by a more perl'ish way) but they didn't work.
they both worked fine for me?!? I tested
them before posting them, and don't see
a problem with them... ?!?
Just for a cut and paste example,
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI qw/:standard/;
print header(
-type => 'text/plain',
-cookie => cookie( -name=>'ident', -value=>'eatit200')
);
print <<END_BLOCK;
Eat it 200 my friend! Your cookie is now set!
END_BLOCK
1;