In a program I'm writing with CGI the user will put in some information and it needs to be validated against a database. All goes fine until I get to the point where I say "Did they 'pass the test' or 'did the fail the test'. If they pass - I need it to redirect to 'page2'....If they failed....Show Error Message. The problem is that I send the information from page1 to page2 via a cookie, but how can I redirect and send the cookie through the header. Here is my code:

      #SUCCESSFUL LOG-IN -----------------------------------
      print "Location: policy.cgi\n\n";
      }
      else {
      #FAILED LOG-IN ---------------------------------------
      print
      header(-cookie => [$to_set1,$to_set2,$to_set3]),
      start_html('Schmuck-Policy');

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As you can see even the failed log in will get the cookie, not for any reason, but thats how I figured it could be done with the successful log in.
Anyone have any ideas?

In reply to PerlCGI / Cookies by Trihedralguy

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