How complicated does your cookie check need to be? If HTTP_COOKIE is set in your enviroment you can check to see if something is set like this: 

<!--#if expr="$HTTP_COOKIE = /foo\=bar/"-->
    <p>Cookie foo is set to bar</p>
<!--#endif -->

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If you need something more complicated you could use exec or virtual to run a cgi.

foo.shtml

<html>
<body>
<p>Test of include</p>
<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/bar.pl" -->
</body>
</html>

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bar.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use CGI;

my $cgi = CGI->new();

print $cgi->header,
      $cgi->start_html;

my @names = $cgi->cookie();

foreach my $c ( @names ) {
  my $val = $cgi->cookie( $c );
  print $cgi->blockquote( $cgi->em( $c ), ' - ', $val );
}

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-derby

In reply to Re: SSI and *reading* a cookie only by derby
in thread SSI and *reading* a cookie only by jfrm

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