Here is a small perl cookie test script. Put this cookietest.cgi in the same folder as manage_users.cgi. Access with browser and click the create button several times to see cookies created. Then repeat press the refresh button to see them expire after 20 seconds and disappear. This should show whether the problem is with your script, browser or server.

#!/usr/bin/perl
# cookietest.cgi
use strict;
use CGI ':standard';
use CGI::Cookie;
use Data::Dumper;
my $time = scalar localtime;

my $cookie;
if ( param('action') ){
  $cookie = new CGI::Cookie(
  -name    => (sprintf "TESTCOOKIE_%05d",rand(10000)), 
  -value   => $time,
  -expires => '+20s' );
  CGI::delete_all();
  print redirect( -cookie => $cookie );
}

my $JS =<<EOJ;
  function display_ct() {
    var x = new Date()
    document.getElementById('ct').innerHTML = x;
  }
EOJ

print header( -cookie => $cookie ),
start_html( -title => "cookietest.cgi", -script=>$JS, 
            -onLoad=>"display_ct();" ),
h2("Cookie Test"),
h3("Server time is : $time"),
h3("Client time is : <span id='ct' ></span>");

print start_form( -method => "POST" );
print submit("action","create cookie");
print submit("refresh","refresh");
print end_form;

my %cookie = CGI::Cookie->fetch;
my $count = keys %cookie;
print h3("There are $count cookies");
print pre( Dumper \%cookie ),end_html;

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In reply to Re^7: Cookie->fetch problem by poj
in thread Cookie->fetch problem by tultalk

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