I put the print header(cookie..) inside the first loop and put a normal print header in the other loop where the form is to be printed. It didn't work at first when I used $cookie because $cookie can't be defined until they login so I used if ( cookie('sessionID') ) { which seems to work.

Now something weird is happening. When you click the login button it changes the url from http://sulfericacid.perlmonk.org/login to http://sulfericacid.perlmonk.org/%2Flogin, which of course can't be found. Why is the cookie changing the url?

You said I shouldn't store passwords inside the cookies, is this ALWAYS a rule or is it okay if you encrypt the password?

Thanks

if ( cookie('sessionID') ) {

print header(-cookie=>'sessionID'), start_html;
    print "You're in!";
    print cookie();
}
else {
print header, start_html;
    print "BAD COOKIE!<br>";

    print start_form(),
      table(
        Tr(
            td("Username:"),
            td( textfield( -name => 'username', -size => '15' ) )
        ),
        Tr(
            td("Password:"),
            td( textfield( -name => 'password', -size => '15' ) )
        ),
        Tr( td( submit('send') ), ),
        end_form,
      );

    if (param) {
        use Digest::MD5 qw(md5 md5_hex md5_base64);

        my $user    = param('username');
        my $passold = param('password');
        my $pass    = md5_hex($passold);    #encrypt

        if ( exists $login{$user} ) {
            if ( $login{$user} == $pass ) {
                print "Good!<br>";
                
my $contents = join("::", $user, $pass);

        my $cookie=    cookie(
                    -name    => 'sessionID',
                    -value   => "$contents",
                    -expires => '+1h',
                    -secure  => 1
                );
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