You need to understand how cookies and HTTP headers work. The headers contain the cookie and *should* look like: 

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Set-Cookie: blah
[other headers]
Content-Type: text/html
                           <-- Blank line ie \n\n after text/html term
+inates header
[Form Content Here]

[download]

If you see the Cookie as plaintext you have outputted a valid \n\n terminated header *before* you have outputted the Set-Cookie Header. Unbuffer with $|++; at the top of the script, and check the output order. Go to http://web-sniffer.net/ and test your script to see what is being sent in what order. You are getting the order wrong.

cheers

tachyon

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

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