Hi monks,
I've got a form created by a cgi script (sorry, I'm one of those who discovered Perl through cgi). When someone clicks on a button on the form another script is supposed to read the data from the button and a hidden input and write them to cookies. It works fine in Firefox, Galeon loves it, IE doesn't want to know about it.
I'm pretty sure the problem is that the cookie isn't being set because it isn't picking up the cookie value in the next script. I've tried using CGI::Cookie but wound up with the same results.
I've gone back to my original code to try and sort this out. Here it is:
Set the cookies and redirect: 
# Process form and set cookies
   my ($cat) = param('butCat');
   my ($typ) = param('txtTyp');
   my ($to_set) = cookie(-name => 'cat',
      -value => $cat,
      -path => '/',
      );
   my ($to_set_a) = cookie(-name => 'bus_com',
      -value => $typ,
      -path => '/',
      );
   
    my $cgi = CGI->new();
    print $cgi->redirect(-uri => '/'.$typ.'sub.html', -cookie => [$to_
+set, $to_set_a]);

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Get the cookie in the next script: 
# Get Subcat data from cat cookie
    $catnum = cookie('cat');

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To see it in action (or not) go to www.martoncentral.co.nz/buslst.html and click on any of the sub category buttons towards the top of the page. Thanks in advance for sharing your wisdom.

In reply to IE not setting or retireving cookies by greymoose

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