CGI Cookies...

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

I have my script place a cookie, that only holds a session id,

cookie (-name => "session_id",
    -value => $sess_ref->session_id(),
    -path => url (-absolute => 1),
    -expires => "+1y"
);
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However, if I load the site, without loading the script NAME, like this:
http://www.mydomain.com
instead of like this:
http://www.mydomain.com/index.cgi
Then it does not get the cookie, I assume it's because of the url(-absolute=>1) but don't know for sure, I've tried changing that, but then it never recognizes the cookie, what am I doing wrong? Can you see my mistake?

thx,
Richard

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Re: CGI Cookies... by dws (Chancellor) on Mar 14, 2003 at 06:34 UTC
Can you see my mistake? No, but I can suggest a debugging technique. Write a small script that dumps %ENV, and look for what's different between the trailing '/' and the no trailing '/' case.	[reply]
Re: CGI Cookies... by powerhouse (Friar) on Mar 14, 2003 at 07:13 UTC
Ahh, I found it... `cookie (-name => "session_id", -value => $sess_ref->session_id(), #-path => url (-absolute => 1), completely Removed this -domain => ".domain.com", -expires => "+1y" );` [download] Before I had just kept modifying the -path, this time I removed the whole line, and it worked. thx, Richard	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: CGI Cookies... by cfreak (Chaplain) on Mar 14, 2003 at 14:36 UTC
Set your path to '/', I say this because i've often had probs with Netscape 4 not setting the cookie if there wasn't a path at all. I've also had problems with the evil browser from redmond refusing to set cookies when I don't specify the entire domain. (i.e. leaving off the www) I get around this by setting domain to `$ENV{HTTP_HOST}` Hope that helps Chris Lobster Aliens Are attacking the world!	[reply] [d/l]