I'm writing a script to authenticate a user on initial log in and have this authentication last for 10 minutes (during which it will be passed between scripts) so as to avoid repeated calls to an Exchange server.

I'm creating a session file to store the authentication details and I want to keep the session ID in a cookie, so it can be reloaded each time.

I've got the following... 
# load CGI information
$cgi = new CGI;
 
# load session (from cookie) or create new one if not found 
if ($session = new CGI::Session(undef, $cgi, {Directory=>$SESSION_DIR}
+)) {
   # expire after 10 minutes
   $session->expire('+10m');
       
   # set cookie
   $cookie = $cgi->cookie(-name    => "CGISESSID",
                      -value   => $session->id,
              -expires => '+1h',
                  -secure  => 1);
   print $cgi->header(-cookie=>$cookie);

   # print opening HTML
   print $HTML_OPEN;

   if (defined $session->param('authentication')) {
      # user is authorised - allow access to site
      print "Welcome back"; # D

      ...
   } else {
      # authorise user
      if (&authorise_user) {
     print "Welcome";
     # set user info in session file
     &log_state($session, 'authentication', 'passed')
      } else {
         print "You are not welcome";
      }
   }

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But it won't create a cookie on my machine.

Any ideas?

A

In reply to CGI cookie problem by qadwjoh

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