Thank you for your help, I've used your code and got pretty far with it, I believe, but I've run into a problem or two. I don't know if the cookie is getting set or not, but it says I'm logged in if I type in the correct password.

I have url_params that run off this script, but when I'm supposively logged in and I go to a url_param, it errors out saying I have the wrong password. Can you see a problem below with the cookie being sent? And if I reload the page after I log in, I stay logged in. But if I go back to the url using the location bar, it tells me to relog back in.

Thank you!

my $adminpassword = "test";
my %cookie;

if ( !exists $cookie{'pass'} ) {
    if ( param() ) {
        my $adminpass = param('admin');

        if ( $adminpass eq $adminpassword ) {
            my $cookiename = cookie(
                -name    => 'cookie',
                -value   => 'loggedin',
                -expires => '+1h'
            );
        
        print header, start_html();

        # print rest of page here
        print "you are logged in";


}
        }

        else {
            print header, start_html();

            print "Incorrect password, please click back and try again
+";
            exit;
        }
    }
    else {
        print header, start_html();

        print start_form(),
          table(
            Tr(
                td("Admin Password: "),
                td(
                    textfield(
                        -name => 'admin',
                        -size => 10
                    )
                )
            ),
            Tr( td(), td(submit) ),
          ),
          end_form(), hr();
    }
}
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