Thank you! This is the closest I've been to getting anything to work. I can get to the 2nd loop (elsif) but for some reason it won't set the cookie and it won't process the if($cookie). I do a test print on $cookie to see what it contains and it never contains anything, why would that be?

I got confused when you assigned $cookie_to_send to the cookie but printed to header the cookie instead of $cookie_to_send so I tried using both variations; neither errored and neither stored anything in the cookie. Any ideas why?

Thanks so much! 

my $code = param('name');
my $cookie = cookie(-name=>'test') || '';


if ($cookie) {

} elsif ($code) {

    my $cookie_to_send = cookie(-name=>'test'
                                -value=>"$code",
                                -expiration=>'+1h');
    # print out header
    print header(-cookie=>$cookie_to_send);
    print "You had a cookie!<br>";
    print "Code: $code<br>";
    print "Cookie: $cookie";
  
  
} else {
print header, start_html;
print "You have no cookie";
print start_form( -action => '' ),
  table(
    Tr( td("Name:"),     td( textfield( -name => 'name',  -size => '15
+' ) ) ),
    Tr( td("Email:"),    td( textfield( -name => 'email', -size => '15
+' ) ) ),
    Tr( td( submit('send') ), ),
    end_form,
  );
}

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In reply to Re: Re: A rotten cookie by sulfericacid
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