Re: CGI::Cookie issues

You can use the header method from CGI.

from the CGI docs
print $query->header(-cookie=>$cookie);

This will not prevent it from printing to the screen when run as a command line program - since CGI uses STDOUT for it's content. You could disable from the command line by checking the $query->request_method() a command line invocation should IIRC not return anything

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Re: Re: CGI::Cookie issues by sdyates (Scribe) on Nov 21, 2002 at 03:36 UTC
Thanks... That hides the header... which is good! However, I still cannot get the ReadCookie() method to read the cookie... or more correctly, I cannot get the cookie set properly. `#!/usr/local/bin/perl use CGI qw/:standard/; use CGI::Cookie; $passwd="toronto5"; $cookie1 = new CGI::Cookie(-name=>'DB', -value=>{ username => simony, password => toronto5, }, -expires => '+8H'); #print header(-cookie=>[$cookie1]); print "Set-Cookie: $cookie1\n"; print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"; print $cookie1;` [download] The above has no problem setting the cookie if it stands alone. I don't want to be a code mooch, but finding documentation that is correct is not easy--even the man pages are not consistant. Can you provide any direction in this manner? Thanks, Simon	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Re: CGI::Cookie issues
by sdyates (Scribe) on Nov 21, 2002 at 03:36 UTC

Thanks... That hides the header... which is good! However, I still cannot get the ReadCookie() method to read the cookie... or more correctly, I cannot get the cookie set properly.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use CGI qw/:standard/;
use CGI::Cookie;

$passwd="toronto5";

$cookie1 = new CGI::Cookie(-name=>'DB',
    -value=>{ username => simony,
          password => toronto5,
    },
    -expires =>  '+8H');
    
#print header(-cookie=>[$cookie1]);

print "Set-Cookie: $cookie1\n";
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
print $cookie1;
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The above has no problem setting the cookie if it stands alone. I don't want to be a code mooch, but finding documentation that is correct is not easy--even the man pages are not consistant. Can you provide any direction in this manner?

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[d/l]