Trouble writing a cookie with CGI::Session

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

I'm playing around with CGI::Session (using MySQL as the driver) and I'm having a problem with the cookie end of things. The session gets created and stores the information into the database, but for some reason, it's not saving a cookie file to my local browsers settings (IE).

In the CGI::Session Tutorial documentation, it says to write a cookie like so:

$cookie = $cgi->cookie(CGISESSID => $session->id);
print $cgi->header( -cookie=>$cookie );
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I read somewhere that a cookie won't be written locally unless " -path => '' " isn't set when creating your cookie (read this on another forum, may not be correct). Looking at CGI's documentation, I see that a cookie would be invoked like this:

$cookie = $query->cookie(-name    => 'sessionID',
                         -value   => 'xyzzy',
                         -expires => '+1h',
                         -path    => '/cgi-bin/database',
                         -domain  => '.capricorn.org',
                         -secure  => 1);
print $query->header(-cookie=>$cookie);
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How do I work with the CGI object so that I can use CGI::Session and also write the cookie to the browser? I seem to be able to only do one or the other (I can write the cookie, but then my session doesn't seem to work, or I can get the session working, but the cookie doesn't get written).

"My" code is just the examples from the CGI::Session Cookbook at this point - I'm just trying to get it to work.

djw

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Re: Trouble writing a cookie with CGI::Session by talexb (Chancellor) on Aug 05, 2003 at 16:23 UTC
You need to send the HTTP header using the CGI::Session method 'header'. Note that the documentation may state incorrectly that `$session->header;` [download] will output the header, complete with CGI::Session cookie information. That should actually be `print $session->header;` [download] Yes, I wrote to the authour and he wrote back to confirm this mistake. --t. alex Life is short: get busy!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Trouble writing a cookie with CGI::Session by antirice (Priest) on Aug 05, 2003 at 16:37 UTC
In the documentation, they have the following: `$cookie = new CGI::Cookie(-name=>'CGISESSID', -value=>$session->id); print $cgi->header(-cookie=>$cookie);` [download] Of course you can just use cookie(-name... and all will be well. The syntax you used produces a cookie as such: `CGISESSID=whatever-it-is; path = /` [download] Which has no expiration and as such expires immediately. I personally don't like using print $session->header since you can only use one cookie and it specifies the type. Hope this helps. antirice The first rule of Perl club is - use Perl The ith rule of Perl club is - follow rule i - 1 for i > 1	[reply] [d/l] [select]