Hi fellow monks,

I've got a CGI app in development. I'm trying to set a cookie, and then immediately read from it. I don't seem to have any problems setting the cookie, but I can't seem to read right back from it. Code looks something like this:
$new_cookie = cookie_creator_sub() if (some condition);

....

if ($new_cookie) { 
    print $q->header(-cookie=>$new_cookie);
} else {
    print $q->header();
}

my %cookie = $q->cookie('info');

....

sub cookie_creator_sub {

    .....

    my %cookie_info = (
    'tempfile'  =>    $tempfile,
    'timestamp' =>    $timestamp,
    );
        
   $newcookie = $q->cookie(-name=>'info',
               -value=>\%cookie_info,
              );    

   return $newcookie;
}

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If I put debug info in, I can see that the cookie is being created, but not read; on the next refresh or call of the script the cookie is read.

Am I doing something wrong, or can't you create and read a cookie in the same pageview?

Thanks~!

$ echo '$0 & $0 &' > foo; chmod a+x foo; foo;

In reply to reading and writing a CGI cookie in the same page by ibanix

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