Weeellllll, you have to set the cookie in the HTTP header not in the body of the HTML document. So that means you have to do the print header() after the cookie setting stuff. Try 
my ($usr,$pw);

if ($ENV{'HTTP_COOKIE'}) {
    $usr = $wm->cookie('user');      
    $pw = $wm->cookie('pass');   
} else {
    $usr = $wm->param('usr');
    $pw = $wm->param('pw');
}
print $wm->header(-cookie=>[$usr, $pw]);

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Also take a look at the CGI.pm docs and examples - especially the cookie setting one

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In reply to Re: Receiving Cookie Values by dingus
in thread Receiving Cookie Values by Jaspersan

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