I think it's a bug too, but the first call to header just drops all arguments - passing a CGI object is irrelevant (to header, !1 was talking about new). Here's sub header() from CGI::Session v3.95

sub header {
    my $self = shift;

    my $cgi = $self->{_SESSION_OBJ};
    unless ( defined $cgi ) {
        require CGI;
        $self->{_SESSION_OBJ} = CGI->new();
        return $self->header();
    }

    my $cookie = $cgi->cookie($self->name(), $self->id() );

    return $cgi->header(
        -type   => 'text/html',
        -cookie => $cookie,
        @_
    );
}

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The first call to CGI::Session::header instantiates a CGI object ($self->{_SESSION_OBJ}), then calls $self->header() without any of the parameters originally passed. The second call, the CGI object already exists and sub header handles all the arguments.

Here's a minimal patch for CGI::Session (untested) 

1222c1222
<         return $self->header();
---
>         $cgi = $self->{_SESSION_OBJ};

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A workaround for the OP would be to call it twice - ie

 # call header to instantiate CGI object, but throw away the result
$sess->header();
# _now_ print the header
print $sess->header(expires => '+1M');
__END__
output:
Set-Cookie: CGISESSID=e438a0cb3647f362bd9934d048dca443; path=/
Expires: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:52:43 GMT
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:42:43 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

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Update: modified the patch

Update 2: went to rt.cpan.org, and !1's patch is almost the same...

In reply to Re^2: CGI::Session and cookie expiration by bmann
in thread CGI::Session and cookie expiration by Seumas

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