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my $cookie = cookie(
    -NAME=> $cookie,
    -VALUE=> $pw,
    -EXPIRES => "+24h", 
    );
    print header(-COOKIE => $cookie, -expires=>'now');

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When setting a cookie, I can't seem to get other EXPIRE formats to work. If I try +1m, it doesn't seem to accept my cookie if I reload the screen the second after I sign in. Same thing goes with +24h or +10h or +1d or +10d, the cookie doesn't stick.

The only one that I can find that works is +1year, this DOES work while nothing else does. Can anyone explain to me why this might be? I really don't want to have to login just once a year, I'd rather it be once per few hours OR they have to login whenever they close the browser window.

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Re: cookie setting
by b10m (Vicar) on Feb 02, 2004 at 16:47 UTC 
    my $cookie = cookie(
   -NAME=> $cookie,
   -VALUE=> $pw,
   -EXPIRES => "+24h",
   );

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    The thing that strikes me as odd is -NAME=> $cookie. Is this the real code, or is it just a typo in this example? I think something like -NAME=>'pw' is going to work better.

    For me, this is working rather well:

    my $cookie = cookie(-name=>'username',
                     -value=>$username,
                     -expires=>'+5d',
                     -path=>'/',
                     -domain=>$domain,
                     );

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    b10m

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Re: cookie setting
by bkiahg (Pilgrim) on Feb 02, 2004 at 16:50 UTC
    If you want to delete the cookie when they close the browser don't set an expire time. And the browser won't keep the cookie. Food for thought.
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Re: cookie setting
by borisz (Canon) on Feb 02, 2004 at 16:36 UTC
    Check the clocks on the client and server ;-)
    Boris
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