Any comments are welcome :-)

Three comments:

1. Taint check. If someone sneaks Javascript into a cookie, they've set you up for a "cross-site scripting attack" (i.e., you'll end up emitted their javascript in your page).

2. The fragment 

    $content = $query->cookie('user');
    @new = split ("=", $content);

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should set you up for a one-trip loop, since the value you get back shouldn't have "=" signs embedded unless they're a legal character in the cookie value. You should be able to get by with   $user = $query->cookie('user'); 3. Mixing hand-coded HTML with HTML generated by CGI is confusing, and could complicate maintenance. Either use templates, or go all the way with CGI methods.

In reply to Re: Pulling out the value of a cookie: Revisited by dws
in thread Pulling out the value of a cookie: Revisited by WarrenBullockIII

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