After battling with CGI.pm, cookies and redirection, this morning I finally made some progress when I changed my script from 
  print redirect ( cookie => $Cookie, uri => $URL );

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to 
  print redirect ( -cookie => $Cookie, -uri => $URL );

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Can someone explain the difference?

Another example is the login form: should there be hyphens in front of 'border', 'cellspacing' and 'cellpadding'? 

    print p, startform,
      table ( { border => 1, cellspacing => 0, cellpadding => 2 },
        Tr ( th ( "UserID:" ), td ( textfield ( USERID ) ),
          td ( { rowspan => 2 }, submit ( "Login" ) ) ),
        Tr ( th ( "Password:" ), td ( password_field ( PASSWORD ) ) ) 
+),
      endform;

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I have been using CGI.pm on and off for some time, and most of the time it works like a champ. Should I be thinking that I'm passing command line options in, hence the leading hyphen?

This is all based on merlyn's Basic Cookie Management column.

--t. alex
but my friends call me T.

In reply to CGI.pm parameter format by talexb

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