I have a simple block of code and I am trying to set and retrieve a session cookie. It works like a charm when I put in an expiration date, but I don't want and expiration date, I want it to stay as long as the browser is open and then go away when the browser closes. I took most of this code straight out of the question and answers section. Am I mising something? 
$q = new CGI;
my $cookievalue = $q->cookie('User_Session');
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
$initcookie = $q->cookie(
              -name=>'User_Session',
              -value=>'abc',
              -expires=>'', # leave this blank
              -path=>'/',
              -domain=>'www.thedialogcenter.com',
              -secure=>0
              );

print "The cookie value is : $cookievalue<br>";

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My hope is to have no cookie value show up the first time through. I then wish to refresh the page (to simulate another page calling it) and have it show up. This is just a simple test before I put the logic into my existing scripts. Any help would be much apprciated. Thanks

In reply to Problem retrieving session cookies by Hammy

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