As jeffa suggests, there are modules for doing this. But really, all you should have to do is print the cookie-setting headers before the blank line after the Content-Type header. You imply that this is tricky to do in your particular script, but I don't understand your explanation. A cookie is sent as part of a page; it doesn't make any sense to say you need to collect data before you can send the cookie for that page. Of course you can collect data and set a cookie from the resulting page, but you just have to set the cookie in the headers of that page.

Also, your print statements with the cookies are missing \r\n at the end.

In reply to Re: Cookies write to screen, not to cookie file by sgifford
in thread Cookies write to screen, not to cookie file by TJD

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