cookie AND redirect...

powerhouse has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is it possible to print a Cookie AND then redirect the user using the CGI.pm redirect clause?

According to the documentation I found, it says if I want to redirect then I should NOT print any headers. So, I don't know how I should do it.

Any Ideas?

thx,
Richard

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•Re: cookie AND redirect... by merlyn (Sage) on Feb 05, 2003 at 00:47 UTC
You can both redirect and set a cookie. I have an example of it in my famous column on good cookie management. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]
Re: •Re: cookie AND redirect... by powerhouse (Friar) on Feb 05, 2003 at 02:20 UTC
Thanks, and BTW, this cookies only data is an affiliate code so that the person responisble for them finding our site gets credit. I don't use cookies for anything but that, and maintaining a sessionid, then we store anything we need(user stuff) in a database, they can expire it at anytime by clicking a link in their personal profile page. FYI. :o) Richard.	[reply]
Re: cookie AND redirect... by giulienk (Curate) on Feb 05, 2003 at 08:26 UTC
`use CGI qw(:standard); #do everything print redirect( -url => $redirect_url, -cookie => cookie( -name => 'WHATEVER', -value => 'see_NB' ) );` [download] NB: check merlyn's previous reply (and article) for a good policy about what should go and what shouldn't go in cookies. `$\|=$_="1g2i1u1l2i4e2n0k",map{print"\7",chop;select$,,$,,$,,$_/7}m{..}g`	[reply] [d/l]