Here is the situation: I am on an network of windose boxes with apache running on one of the boxes. I have my web apps there with perl/mysql etc.. I want to build a script that will be run in the users login script that will take the username via $ENV{USERNAME} and build a cookie do a request to the server so that the cookie will be built on the users box containing the user's USERNAME, so that I can use cgi->cookie and know who is there. What I have attempted so far. I have a cookie built on the opening page of my intranet site. The cookie contains a bogus value. In the login script I had a script that runs out and finds the cookie file no matter where it is on the user's disk, slurps it and writes it back out with the $ENV{USERNAME}. I use all the same delimiters for records etc and the file looks exactly the same (or so I think) as the orginal cookie file. However the browser spots the differenct fast - won't access the cookie and then trashes even when I set expire to 01/01/2045. Any and all observations appreciated.

In reply to Unusal request about cookies by jozefn

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