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I don't see anything about it but you can pass a CGI object as the second parameter to CGI::Session->new. If and only if the second parameter is a CGI object will it use the additional parameters on the first call to header. The funny thing is that if you call header a second time with the parameters, it does what you want. Funny stuff, eh?

> cat sillycgisess.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -l

use CGI::Session;

my $sess = CGI::Session->new(undef,undef,{Directory=>'.'});
print "First:";
print $sess->header(expires => '+1M');
print "Second:";
print $sess->header(expires => '+1M');

> perl sillycgisess.pl
First:
Set-Cookie: CGISESSID=681008f3133c46a8f53a121eeb76b692; path=/
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:25:36 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1


Second:
Set-Cookie: CGISESSID=681008f3133c46a8f53a121eeb76b692; path=/
Expires: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:25:36 GMT
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:25:36 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

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This should be considered a bug, IMHO.

In reply to Re: CGI::Session and cookie expiration by !1
in thread CGI::Session and cookie expiration by Seumas

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