Hi, If you could help me I would appreciate it. The following code below creates a session and cookie. The problem is it never initializes the session again, it always creates a new session and cookie every time. Do you see anything I'm missing? 
#!/opt/bin/perl

#use strict;
use CGI::Carp;
use CGI;
use File::Spec;
use CGI::Session;
use Date::Manip;
#use CGI::Session::DB_File;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";



my $cgi = new CGI();
my $session = new CGI::Session(undef, $cgi,
{Directory=>File::Spec->tmpdir });
my $sweet = $cgi->cookie($session->name);

if ($sweet) {
   print "cookie exists  $sweet<BR>";
   my $ipa = $session->param("_SESSION_REMOTE_ADDR");
   my $i = $session->param("NVISITS") || 0;  #If Statement I can use f
+or
other values
   $session->param("NVISITS", ++$i);
   my $current=&ParseDate("today");
   my $d = $session->param("Dateid") || $current;  #If Statement I can
use for other values
   $session->param("Dateid", "$current");
   $session->expire('+1m');
print $cgi->start_html(-title=>"Session"),
   $cgi->h1("Session Information"),
  #$cgi->h1("Hello World from CGI::Session/$CGI::Session::VERSION"),
  $cgi->p("This is CGI::Session $CGI::Session::VERSION"),
  $cgi->p("Your session id is <strong>" . $session->id . "</strong>");
  print $cgi->div("You visited this page $i times so far, right?  Date
$d  IP Address: $ipa $sweet<BR>");

#print $cgi->div("You visited this page $i times so far, right?  Date
$d  IP Address: $ipa cookie session: $sweet<BR>");
#print $cgi->p("Cookie Session: $getcookie");
#print $cgi->end_html();
}else{
   print  "New cookie set<BR>";
   #Building a cookie to be sent to user
   my $cookie = $cgi->cookie(-name=>$session->name,
-value=>$session->id, -expires=>'+1m');
   # Setting cookie in the Browser:
   print $cgi->header(-cookie=>$cookie);
   #print $cgi->header(-type=>'text/html', -cookie=>$cookie);
   #print $cgi->header(-cookie=>$cookie);
   my $ipa = $session->param("_SESSION_REMOTE_ADDR");
   my $i = $session->param("NVISITS") || 0;  #If Statement I can use f
+or
other values
   $session->param("NVISITS", ++$i);
   my $current=&ParseDate("today");
    my $d = $session->param("Dateid") || $current;  #If Statement I ca
+n
use for other values
   $session->param("Dateid", "$current");
   $session->expire('+1m');
   }
exit;

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