Well...

Unless this is just a test piece of code, or you are just trying to figure things out, 'Set-Cookie' method is the way to go.

But, considering you'd probably want to get that cookie back sometime later, I suggest using CGI.pm

It's well tested, and incredibly easy to use. Making setting and retreiving cookies a piece of cake (confectionary pun intended)

Here's how you can modify your code:

use strict;
use CGI;
use vars qw($q $c);

$q = new CGI;
$c = $q->cookie(-name=>"Username", -value=>"Fred Flintstone", -path=>"
+/", -expires=>"+1d");
print $q->header(-cookie=>"$c");

[download]

and you can retrieve by...

use strict;
use CGI;
use vars qw($q $c);

$q = new CGI;
$c = $q->cookie("Username");

[download]

IMO, CGI.pm is one of the best modules on CPAN. It's worth using.

Hope this helps!

Update: D'oh! I just noticed now that perlknight mentions that he has no trouble setting/retrieving cookies with CGI qw(standard). I seriously missed that.

So, if anyone wants to know how perlknight could have done this with CGI.pm... here you are.

John J Reiser will double check post before replying
newrisedesigns.com

In reply to Re: (newrisedesigns) cookie problem by newrisedesigns
in thread cookie problem by perlknight

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