in reply to Crumby cookie

what exactly are you trying to do, if you cut out use CGI; you wont be able to read or write a cookie using $q->cookie("wolves"); so i guess i dont exactly understand what you are trying to do...but if you already set the cookie, which it seems you have, a little script like
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use CGI; use strict; print "Content-type:text/html\n\n"; my $q = new CGI; my $cookie_in = $q->cookie('wolves'); print $cookie_in;
should read the cookie and print it to the page
Warning: Code Untested
hth,
Robert