I can hear the screams now. Yes, another cookie question. Before posting I did read a previous node which came close, but I'm still not getting it. So, before I go back to the dreaded javascript....

Here I check to see if the user has logged in. If they haven't, or it's been > 15 min, they are sent to the login script. Otherwise, a new "session" is started. I'm able to set the cookie, but I'm not able to read it. In the aforementioned node, is chromatic saying that I can't try to read a cookie and then set one at the same time? If so, how am I to get around it? Thanks in advance. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
use strict;
use CGI;
my $query = new CGI;
my $username = int(rand 1000000);

   my $cookie = $query->cookie('xmsessionID');  #check for cookie
      if (!$cookie) { 
         print "No cookie<br>";  #for testing purposes
         goto &login
      } else { 
         print "Cookie found: $cookie<br>";   #for testing purposes
      }
   #-------- write new cookie -----------
   my $newcookie = 
      $query->cookie(-name=>'xmsessionID',
                                -value=> $username,
                                -expires=>'+15m');
                                         
   print $query->header(-cookie=>$newcookie);

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In reply to Not able to set and retrieve cookie by bradcathey

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