i'm just messing around and trying to see the difference... i can set cookies fine w/ CGI.pm, but if i manually try to set them by printing them out, it doesn't work? this is what i have: 
$cookie_id = &random_id;
$cookie = "Set-Cookie: cid=$cookie_id; expires=01-Jan-2020 01:01:01 GM
+T;\n";

print "Content-type: text/html\n";
print $cookie;
print "\n";

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what it actually prints out is this: 
Content-type: text/html
Set-Cookie: cid=MbGFp1L0uIGT50BAlb5wovvwT86thIm5; expires=01-Jan-2020 
+01:01:01 GMT;

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but there's no cookie set, any ideas why? thanks

In reply to how to set a cookie without using CGI.pm? by chauzer

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