Ok, the code below manages to create the cookie and its in my cookie folder.....but the call to
$query->cookie("MY_NAME");
returns NULL( so does $ENV(COOKIE),$ENV(HTTP_COOKIE)...whatever)

Clive made the following comment....
Only cookies sent from the browser are stored in the $ENV{'HTTP_COOKIE'} / $q->cookie() object, so if you've just set the cookie, it's not available in that object until the browser next calls the script.

I dont understand this fully ??, maybe someone might spell it out for me....can i not just create a cookie and then request its contents in the next line of the very same script?

Or maybe the $ENV(COOKIE) variable is not available on tripod( would they be that mean)...ive set up an account with prohosting but im still having diffiulty getting it to run a script(something to do with chmod i think)

anyway the script is named:
and the code is as follows 
-------------------------------------------------------
Code
-------------------------------------------------------
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w 
use strict; 

use CGI; 
my $query = new CGI; 

my $cookie_out = $query->cookie(
       -name=>"MY_NAME", 
       -expires=>'+24h', 
       -domain=>'cgi.tripod.com', 
       -secure=>0

); 

print $query->header(-cookie=>$cookie_out); 

print $query->start_html("Cookie Test"); 

# DEBUG TO SCREEN
print $query->p; 
print $query->header(-cookie=>$cookie_out); 
print $query->p; 

my $cookie_in = $query->cookie("MY_NAME"); 

if($cookie_in) 
{ 
   print $cookie_in; 
} 
else 
{ 
   print "Can't find the cookie"; 
} 
print $query->p; 

print $query->end_html;

[download]

BROWSER DISPLAYS

Set-cookie: domain=cgi.tripod.com; expires=Monday, 27-Aug-2001 22:50:49 GMT Content-type: text/html

Can't find the cookie


COOKIE CONTAINS

0 782699264 29437766 42193056 29437564 *

In reply to The Cookie Monster Returns......$ENV on tripod??????? by Baz

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