my $cookiename = cookie(
                -name    => 'cookie',
                -value   => 'loggedin',
                -expires => '+1h'
            );
        
        print header, start_html();
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You haven't actually set the cookie just by doing that. You've created a cookie but then not sent it to the browser. You need to print the header and explicitly tell it to include the cookie.