Re: Problem retrieving session cookies

Thanks for your response Ben. I finally got it to work (somewhat). When I moved the print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; until after the calls to the cookie it worked. Now looks like this:

$q = new CGI;
my $cookievalue = $q->cookie('User_Session');
$initcookie = $q->cookie(
              -name=>'User_Session',
              -value=>'abc',
              -path=>'/',
              -domain=>'www.thedialogcenter.com',
              -secure=>0
              );

print $q->header(-cookie=>$initcookie);
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "The cookie value is : $cookievalue<br>";
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My first question is why (I hate doing things that work that I don't understand). My second question - is there a way to set the cookie after the "Content-type" has been set? Third questions -why do my questions not show up in the main list of questions. And finally, why do I no longer get an email when someone responds. I asked a question a while ago about sessions and got some GREAT responses that I never looked at because I thought I would get an email when they responded. Thats in advance for answers to any of my questions.

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Re: Re: Problem retrieving session cookies by benn (Vicar) on Apr 10, 2003 at 14:27 UTC
in order.... You need to create the cookie, then print the cookie...It looks like you should be getting duplicate header/cookie lines there - the "print $q->header(-cookie...)" should" do exactly the same as your next two print statements. If not, try "$q->header({-cookie=>$initcookie})" - I've known some versions of CGI.pm not like named params unless they're an anon. hash. Yes - you can print the "Content-type" header, set your cookie, then print the cookie, as you can do above simply by moving the $initcookie initalisation down two lines. If you do this, you don't need to use $q->header(); If you mean the 'Monastery Gates' (the front page), then only certain questions make it on there - particularily interesting, informative or challenging ones usually. If you mean the "Seekers Of Perl Wisdom" section, then occasionally there may be a delay while your question is 'approved' - or maybe deleted if the question is seen as irrelevant / non-perl / flaming etc. I don't think* there's an email bot around - but in your 'preferences' you can tick the "show me when I get a response to posts" box though to receive notifications in the Chatterbox Hope this helps. Cheers, Ben	[reply]
Re: Problem retrieving session cookies by Hammy (Scribe) on Apr 10, 2003 at 15:53 UTC
Thank you again Ben. Your pointers helped tremendously. I now have it working. To get it to work I had to remove the print "Content-type: text/html\n\n" line. After removing that line, everything worked like a charm. Prior to that it just would not save or recall the cookie. You made my morning! - Mark	[reply]