I have spent two days on this and cannot figure what is the problem with CGI!

I grab a username and password from one perl script and passit to another...It is in this next script that I generate a cookie. However, the cookie is not registered by the browser unless I issue the following lines:

    print "Set-Cookie: $cookie1\n";
    print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

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However, I do not want to print the cookie to the screen! Please help, I have included the methods I have created and if you could let me know where Iam wrong please.

sub SetCookie {
    use CGI qw/:standard/;
    use CGI::Cookie;
    
    $cookie1 = new CGI::Cookie(-name=>'DB',
        -value=>{ username => $DBuser,
              password => $DBpasswd,
        },
        -expires =>  '+1H');

    print "Set-Cookie: $cookie1\n";
    print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
}

sub ReadCookie {
    %cookies = fetch CGI::Cookie;
    @id = $cookies{'DB'}->value;
    $exp = $cgi->header( -cookie => DB);
    print "$id[0] = $id[1]; $id[2] = $id[3]; Expiration = $exp";
}

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Thanks, Siumon

In reply to CGI::Cookie issues by sdyates

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