Based on the recipe, I updated the following to the login page 

if ($res->{res})
{
  my $MAC = Digest::SHA1::sha1_hex($ARGS{username}, "Get the S1gnal!")
+;

  my $cookie = Apache2::Cookie->new
       ( $r,
         -name  => 'user_login',
         -value => { user_id => $ARGS{username}, MAC => $MAC },
         -path  => '/',
         -domain  => 'ruth.dobson.net',
         -expires => '+1M',
       );

  $r->err_headers_out->add('Set-Cookie' => $cookie);
}

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It didn't change any thing. is there any way to, if I stop before the redirect, to check and see what whas set or check someplace to see what is happening when I submit the cookie? I'm not sure how to go about debugging this.

--Jimbus aka Jim Babcock
Wireless Data Engineer and Geek Wannabe
jim-dot-babcock-at-usa-dot-com

In reply to Re^2: Apache2::Cookie troubles... sanity check needed on auth/sess handling by jimbus
in thread Apache2::Cookie troubles... sanity check needed on auth/sess handling by jimbus

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