Quite new to this (HTML/PERL) but have just read most ALL the SSI Faq links..
Have a simple chatroom based on a variant of a guestbook script...works fine..Thanks to some help from this forum!...but would like to save users name/city/st (after a succcesful posting) so that when they return again, i might (assuming cookie was there) preload those fields in FORM data as initial values...

Have a main index page...it links to the "ADD" page...would using SSI on ADD page to do a "include virtual cookie.pl" type req work? So that it would read cookie data and modify the HTML for the page? But then...wouldn't I have to have all the ADD page code embeded in the PL pgm? Which makes the ADD page hard to maintain...

How should i approach this issue? Is there a better way?(I have looked at postings about cookies here but did not see any samples about this issue.) I want to have this secure as much as possible also! Hope you understand my questions! THANKS

In reply to How to preload user data on form via cookie & Perl/CGI? by JCHallgren

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