Hi Monks,
I am trying to get the value of $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'} into a cookie but it seems that it doesn't work the way I have in my code, any help?
Here is what I have:

#! /perl/bin/perl


use CGI;
$query = new CGI;

#print $query->header;
#print $query->header(-cookie=>$cookie);

#print $query->start_html('My cookie-get.cgi program');

#print $query->h3('The cookie is ...');

#Check if cookie is true else,  creating a cookie...
$theCookie = $query->cookie('aa_exit');

if(!$theCookie){
    
$exit_link = "$ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}";

    $cookie = $query->cookie(-name=>'aa_exit',
                 -value=>$exit_link,
                 -expires=>'+4h',
                     -path=>'/');
             
print $query->header(-cookie=>$cookie);    

print $query->h3('The cookie NOW is ...');

$theCookie = $query->cookie('aa_exit');

print "<BLOCKQUOTE>^^^^^\n";
print $theCookie;
print "^^^^^</BLOCKQUOTE><br>\n";

         }else{
             
print $query->header;
                    
print "<BLOCKQUOTE>*****\n";
print $theCookie;
print "*****</BLOCKQUOTE>\n";

}

print $query->end_html;

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Thank you!

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