Just a quick question here.... Is anyone else having troubles getting Cookie data from an Apache server using Perl 5.8 on Win2K (yes Activestate build 804 see below for full details) I have a program that tries to log into a web server ( POST Method ) and should get back a Cookie with the "Secret handshake" to be used in following interaction with the web server. I get the confirmation document ( in the http content ) but an empty cookie. I'm at wit's end because the code works fine on Linux (RedHat 7.3 based, Perl version 5.6.1)and I'd like to not have two versions of the program. Both platforms use LWP 5.69, both use HTTP::Cookies version 1.30. Should I be at all concerned that perl -V reports osvers=4.0 while Microsoft has a habit of refering to Win2K as WIN NT Version 5.0? The offensive code is as follows. 
use strict;
use LWP;
use HTTP::Cookies;
#use XML::DOM;
use XML::Twig;
use Data::Dumper;

my $oper = shift;
chomp($oper);
my $debug = shift;
my $user = 'username';
my $pword = 'userpassword';


my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
  $ua->cookie_jar( {} );        # A place to hold the cookies from ETS
+S BO's

  $ua->agent("UPIXweb/1.0 ");

  # Create a request
  my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => 'http://etss.btv.ibm.com/xmes/p
+ack/usermgr');
  $req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
  $req->content("operation=authenticateUser&userid=$user"."&password=$
+pword");

C:\>perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
    uname=''
    config_args='undef'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultip
+licity=define
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cl', ccflags ='-nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D_CON
+SOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT  -DPE
RL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_REA
+DFIX',
    optimize='-MD -DNDEBUG -O1',
    cppflags='-DWIN32'
    ccversion='', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=10
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='__int64
+', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -release  -libpath:"C:\
+Perl\lib\CORE"  -machine:x86'
    libpth="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\mfc\lib" "C:
+\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\V
C98\lib" "C:\Perl\lib\CORE"
    libs=  oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib
+  comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib
ole32.lib oleaut32.lib  netapi32.lib uuid.lib wsock32.lib mpr.lib winm
+m.lib  version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.l
ib msvcrt.lib
    perllibs=  oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool
+.lib  comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.
lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib  netapi32.lib uuid.lib wsock32.lib mpr.lib 
+winmm.lib  version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp
32.lib msvcrt.lib
    libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=yes, libperl=perl58.lib
    gnulibc_version='undef'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -release  -l
+ibpath:"C:\Perl\lib\CORE"  -machine:x86'



Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES PERL
+_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
  Locally applied patches:
        ActivePerl Build 804
  Built under MSWin32
  Compiled at Dec  1 2002 23:15:13
  @INC:
    C:/Perl/lib
    C:/Perl/site/lib
    .

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Somebody get me out of these "Twisty little passages, all alike".... Thanks, The Drone

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