Hi, I can't seem to retrieve my cookie even though I can see it stored on disk. Here is the sub I use to store the cookie: 
sub setCookie($) {
   my($session) = @_;
   my $query = new CGI;
   $sid = $session->id();
   $cookie = $query->cookie(-name => "CGISESSID",
                            -value => $sid,
                            -expires => '+1h',
                            -path => '/tmp/Sessions');
   print $query->header(-cookie=>$cookie);
}

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And the code to retrieve the cookie: 

sub retrieveSession($) {
    my ($query, $session) = @_;
    $sid = $query->cookie(CGISESSID=>$session->id) || undef;
    $sid = substr($sid, 10, -8);
    $session = new CGI::Session(undef, $sid, {Directory=>'/tmp/Session
+s'});
    $sid = $session->id();
    $session = getUser($session, $sid);    
    return $session;
}

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Where getUser returns the login name and password of the user logged in from a database. The getUser function isn't the problem its the  $sid = $query->cookie(CGISESSID=>$session->id) || undef;.

If I don't pass the session then it won't find the cookie although its right there in /tmp/Sessions. ARGH!!!

In reply to Cookie Problems by intranetman

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