Hi: I am asking here as a last resort. I have this little subroutine that I am trying to recover cookie info to calling routine to determine whether use is logged in. The SID gets stored in the session table each time I log in. Over and over. This subroutine returns 0 on each attempt This warn("GetUserSessionCookie SID: $sid"); posts to error log: GetUserSessionCookie sessionname: '' at /home/jalamior/www/httpsdocs/cgi-bin/lib/perl/manageusers.pm line 673. I have seen fetch two different ways in literature CGI::Cookie->fetch. and fetch CGI::Cookie; ?????? Neither seems to work Since my $sessionname = 'CGISESSID'; is defined as global in the module, I am assuming that this code will recover only the cookie info associated with that name. Brain dead. Thanks 

sub GetUserSessionCookie
{
    warn("Entered GetUserSessionCookie");
    use CGI qw/:standard/;
    # fetch existing cookies
    my %cookies = CGI::Cookie->fetch;
    warn(%cookies);
    my $sid;
#    warn("GetUserSessionCookie sessionname: '$cookies{$sessionname}'"
+);
    if ($cookies{$sessionname}) {
       $sid = $cookies{$sessionname}->value;
          warn("GetUserSessionCookie SID: $sid");
       }
    else{
     $sid = 0;
    }
    return $sid;
}

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