Hello Monks,

I'm using CGI::Cookie trying to set an expire value for 30 minutes ( '+30m' ). Safari won't accept the value and leaves the expire field blank.

Does anyone know a solution for this using CGI::Cookie?

The cookie expirations are working perfectly in Firefox, Opera, and IE.

I've searched around the monastery and tried to find any information about the problem with no luck. I found HTTP::Cookies::Safari, which seems to address the problem in it's README:

This package overrides the load() and save() methods of HTTP::Cookies so it can work with Safari cookie files.

Note: If the source Safari cookie file specifies and expiry date past the unix 32-bit epoch, this file changes the expiry date to 0xFFFFFFFF in unix seconds. That should be enough for anyone, at least to the next release.
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
use CGI::Cookie;

my $c = new CGI::Cookie(
  -name    =>  'session_id',
  -value   =>  '23423',
  -domain  =>  '.testdomain.com', 
  -path    =>  '/testfolder',
  -expires =>  '+30m',
);
print header(-cookie=>$c);

#--- Rest of Script

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Thanks,
Tatnall
"Recognizing who we aren't is only the first step toward knowing who we are." - Os Guinness

In reply to CGI::Cookie - Safari won't accept -expires by Tatnall

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