I'm in the middle of transitioning some perl scripts from a linux/apache combo to a win2k/iis combo. Most of the scripts I've been able to move over without a single line of code being changed. However, I have a script that uses cookies, and herein lies the problem.

Basically, the script is a multi-state script. On "login", after retrieving some info a session based cookie is set (set_cookie). On any other state, the cookie is retrieved (get_cookie). This works as expected on apache.

After moving this script to the win2k box, cookies stopped working as expected. I can't seem to retrieve the cookie that I'm pretty sure is being set. Here's the code: 
sub set_cookie {
 ###########################################
 # Create a cookie. We have a few different
 # "states" and all of them require at least
 # *some* user information
 # Uses a global CGI object ($p) to create
 # the cookie
 ###########################################
 
 # Get the passed user information
 my %ui = @_;

 # set the params for the cookie
 my $cookie = $p->cookie(
  -name => 'mycookie',
  -value => qq(Name:$ui{'Name'}:Phone:$ui{'Phone'}:EmployeeNum:$ui{'Em
+ployeeNum'}:Email:$ui{'Email'}:SapId:$ui{'SapId'}:NTID:$ui{'NTID'}:Pr
+ovince:$ui{'Province'}),
  -expire => '',
  );
 
 # send it to the browser
 print $p->header(-cookie => $cookie);
}

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and to retrieve the information: 
sub get_cookie
{
 ################################################
 #Retrieve the cookie
 #Uses a global variable ($p) for the CGI object
 #Returns user information 
 ################################################

 my %userinf;
 if ($p->cookie('mycookie'))
 {
  my $values = $p->cookie('mycookie');
  %userinf = split /:/,$values;
 }
 else {
  display_login(); #No cookie, force a login
 }
 print $p->header();
 return (%userinf);
}

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As mentioned above, this works great using apache, fails miserably using IIS (though everything else in the script runs fine).

Any ideas?

In reply to Cookies on Apache vs cookies on IIS by the_slycer

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