Hi all,

Is CGI::Session supposed to do what is typically done by cookies? It seems cookies don't work when firewalls are installed or in certain OSs

I once set a cookie (with use CGI qw(:standard)) with an expiry value of '+h'. While that worked in Windows 98 and XP (and I suspect most other OSs, it ran into problems in Windows 2000 Professional.) The cookie could not be set. I played with the values and changed it to '+3H', and that solved the problem. The cookie code is as follows: 

package Login;

use Subs;

my $cookie1 = do_cookie(
   -name    => 'cookie1',
   -value   => '123',
   -path    => '/',
   -expires => '+h'
);

my $cookie2 = do_cookie(
   -name    => 'cookie2',
   -value   => 'abc',
   -path    => '/',
   -expires => '+h'
);

main_page({ cookie => [$cookie1, $cookie2] });

1;

package Subs;

use CGI qw(:standard);

sub do_cookie {
   my %cookie = @_;
   return cookie(%cookie);
}

sub main_page {
   my $stuff = shift;
   print header(-cookie => $stuff->{'cookie'});
   # rest of code...
}

1;

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Anyway, cookies come across as pretty unreliable to me (besides the fact that their values can be modified) so I'm wondering if using CGI::Session is a better solution to managing persistent sessions...

Any opionions? cheers,

In reply to CGI session vs cookie by kiat

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