Hi Monks, I am writing a web based tool using CGI-Application & HTML-Template. I need to recognise re-visiting users. For this I am writing a cookie. So far so good and following code works fine... 
  my $self              = shift;
  my $query             = $self->query();
  my $redirectTo        = $query->param('redirectTo');

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$userDetails='<all info that needs to be stored>';     
my $expires = '+12M';
my $kpi_cookie = $query->cookie(-name=>'kpi',                         
+                  -value=>$userDetails,                              
+             -expires=>$expires,);
        
$self->header_props(-cookie=>[$kpi_cookie]);
my $template = $self->load_tmpl('index.html'); 
my $lmess  = "Successfully logged in";
$template->param(MSG => $lmess);
return $template->output;

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However problem comes when I try to redirect user to the section of the website where user intended to go after writing cookie. So for example if user wants to enter/update his monthly report, when he clicks on that link, system should check for existing cookie and if no cookie is found, write cookie and then redirect to 'enter/update data' section. When I try to re-direct immediately after writing cookie, cookie information is lost!! Here is the code- 
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my $redirectTo = $query->param('redirectTo');
my $this_url = $query->script_name();
$userDetails='<all info that needs to be stored>';     
my $expires = '+12M';
my $kpi_cookie = $query->cookie(-name=>'kpi',                         
+                  -value=>$userDetails,                              
+             -expires=>$expires,);
        
$self->header_props(-cookie=>[$kpi_cookie]);

my $redirect_url=$this_url.'?rm='.$redirectTo;
$self->header_type('redirect');
$self->header_props(-url => $redirect_url);
return;

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I am not sure where I am making mistake!!

In reply to Cookie problem by bar10der

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