print "$cookie\n";
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Have we a cookie?????\n";

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If you mean you can't see the actual cookie printed it is because you print it before sending content-type headers... Try moving all print statements you want to appear on your browser after printing content-type headers. And btw that \n\n should have been \r\n or more accurately:

... For example, most networking protocols expect and prefer a CR+LF ("\015\012" or "\cM\cJ" )

It is for these trivial mistakes that CGI can save you a lot of trouble if not time. Here is how to set a cookie on client's browser:

use CGI;
my $cgi = CGI->new;
my $cookie = $cgi->cookie(-name  => 'CookieName', -value => 'CookieVal
+ue' ...);

print $cgi->header( -cookie => $cookie,
                    -type    => 'text/html');
#print "just set a cookie on you<br>"
print $cgi->start_html("just set a cookie on you<br>");

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In reply to Re^3: searching for small Cookies example but found does not work by bliako
in thread searching for small Cookies example but found does not work by toohoo

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