Thanks for your response Ben. I finally got it to work (somewhat). When I moved the print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; until after the calls to the cookie it worked. Now looks like this: 
$q = new CGI;
my $cookievalue = $q->cookie('User_Session');
$initcookie = $q->cookie(
              -name=>'User_Session',
              -value=>'abc',
              -path=>'/',
              -domain=>'www.thedialogcenter.com',
              -secure=>0
              );

print $q->header(-cookie=>$initcookie);
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "The cookie value is : $cookievalue<br>";

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My first question is why (I hate doing things that work that I don't understand). My second question - is there a way to set the cookie after the "Content-type" has been set? Third questions -why do my questions not show up in the main list of questions. And finally, why do I no longer get an email when someone responds. I asked a question a while ago about sessions and got some GREAT responses that I never looked at because I thought I would get an email when they responded. Thats in advance for answers to any of my questions.

In reply to Re: Problem retrieving session cookies by Hammy
in thread Problem retrieving session cookies by Hammy

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