In answer to your questions:

  • Are you dumping out the contents of these variables to see where everything first goes wrong?

    • Thanks for the helpful hint. That is extremely useful. When I try to retrieve a cookie from /tmp/Sessions I get  $VAR1 = undef; and then my custom error message. It looks as if the cookie are being stored on the server but not in the user's browser as they should.

  • Do you get anything back after you call query->cookie?

    • If I pass the session id back then yes I will get something. However, if i do not pass the session id then I I get  $VAR1 = undef;.

  • Also, I just want to double check that you have examined the cookie in your browser cookie manager to make sure it really is there.

    • I checked in Mozilla's Cookie Manager and its not there. Also, in IE cookie/temp folders and it isn't there.

  • And the file in your tmp directory is also looking as it should?

    • Yes the cookie is stored as cgisess_a983c8302e7a678a2e53c65e8bd3316 in /tmp/Sessions on the server. Stored as the following:

       $D = {"_SESSION_ETIME" => undef,"_SESSION_ID" => "29456deb010b73d47c7e12af13c7ec2d","log_password" => "31z0a41PqrlmW","~logged-in" => 1,"log_name" => "intranetman","_SESSION_REMOTE_ADDR" => undef,"_SESSION_CTIME" => "1096560508","~profile" => "31z0a41PqrlmW,"_SESSION_ATIME" => "1096560508","_SESSION_EXPIRE_LIST" => {"~logged-in" => 3600}};

    In reply to Re^4: Cookie Problems by intranetman
    in thread Cookie Problems by intranetman

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