Have searched already and found replies! Most dating back to 2002 and some to 2001! I'm NOT on IIS, and everything works fine all except the 'redirect' part!!! Basically this code comes from an IFRAME where I'm calling &authenticate sub. If a user times-out if working within the IFRAME, I would like to redirect the '_top' frame to the login.cgi script. Here's my code: 
    my $query = new CGI;
    my $USER_COOKIE = $query->cookie('LOGGEDIN');
    ##### COOKIEDATA FORMAT
    ##### sid : time : user : user_lang : user_perm
    my ( $CSID, $CTIMEIN, $USER, $USER_NAME, $USER_LANG, $USER_PERM, )
+ = split (/\:/, $USER_COOKIE );

    ##### DO TIMEOUT STUFF
    my $now = time();
    if((( $now - $CTIMEIN ) < $timeout ) && ($CSID eq "$FORM{'sid'}"))
+ {

        ##### COOKIEDATA FORMAT
        ##### sid : time : user : user_name : user_lang : user_perm
        my $cookie_data = qq¿$CSID:$now:$USER:$USER_NAME:$USER_LANG:$U
+SER_PERM¿;
        $expires = $now + $timeout ;

        ##### Set cookie :  No need to redirect as session still valid
        my $user_loggedin = new CGI::Cookie(
            -name=>'LOGGEDIN',
            -value=>$cookie_data,
            -expires=>$expires,
        );
        print "Set-Cookie: $user_loggedin\n";
    }
    else{
        ##### Redirect user to login.cgi
        my $user_loggedin = new CGI::Cookie(
            -name=>'LOGGEDIN',
            -value=>'',
            -expires=>'-1d',
        );
        my $redirect = qq¿$SITE_BASE_URL/login.cgi?timeout=y¿;
        print $query->redirect(
            -cookie=>$user_loggedin,
            -uri=>$redirect,
            -target=>'_top',
        );
        exit(0);
    }

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From what I've read both here and http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm-3.08/CGI.pm the $query->redirect does not support the -target=> arg and those that do support -target=> arg, I can't really work out how to use them with what I've already got. Can anyone help? Any takers? Many thianks as usual to those who take the time to reply ;-)

In reply to Set Cookie & Redirect from IFRAME by meetn2veg

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