I'm writing a CGI application which acts as a very light-weight proxy to another website. It must relay (after processing) the form and cookie information it receives and return the result of the website. The other website may set new cookies, and those would have to be "translated" back so that the user receives them, but they are set for the domain of my script.

I'm using LWP to do the basic relaying, and it's no problem. I have not yet implemented the relaying of the POST information, but I am not as worried about that -- it shouldn't be so bad. My main concern is that the cookie information needs to travel back in both directions, and all the cookie handling in LWP seems to be done with cookie-jar files. This isn't going to be a good solution for me. I need to detect when a new cookie is set by the other website, and if so, translate and pass it back to the user. I also want to avoid the cooke-jar file because it's running as a CGI script.

Does anyone know of any CGI/cookie relaying tricks? I'm most interested in ways around using a cookie-jar file on the disk, and detecting new cookies.

Thanks,
blokhead

In reply to Relaying POST queries cookies by blokhead

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