I know this is a trival question, but I am stuck on this.

In my code I have it when someone logs in, this is printed in the header: 
    print "Content-type:  text/html\n";
    print "Set-Cookie: $COOKIE_KEY=$cookie; PATH=$path\n";

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My question is this dumb one: "How can I set that same code but using CGI.pm?" For instance in this: 
    $cookie = cookie (-name => $COOKIE_KEY,
            -value => $cookie,
            -expires => "+1d"
        );
print header(-cookie => $cookie,
-P3P=>"policyref=/w3c/p3p.xml"
);

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Is that the correct way to do it? Because if I change it to that, then when I change the page, I am not logged in any longer, as if that is not "Set-Cookie: $COOKIE_KEY=$cookie; PATH=$path\n"

Thank you!!!
Richard

In reply to Setting cookie code... by powerhouse

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