Hi Monks!
I am trying to have a simple way to expire a user section using the code here, but I am missing something, I am getting this error 
Software error:
Can't call method "value" on an undefined value...

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could someone show my the best way to do this. I want to set the cookie to be the current time, and then have the section to expire in 15 min and redirect to my login page, here is the code I am using for this.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI qw(:cgi-lib);
use Date::Calc qw(:all);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use CGI qw/:standard/;
use DBI;
use CGI::Cookie;

$current_time = time();
my $ck1 = new CGI::Cookie( "-name"  => "time","-value" => "$current_ti
+me" );

print "Set-Cookie: $ck1\n";

print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"; 

my %cookies = fetch CGI::Cookie;   
   $cookie_time = $cookies{time}->value; 
   
   if ($current_time - $cookie_time > 160) {
      print "Location: ../login_index.html\n\n\n";
      exit;
      }
# print cookie(s) before redirecting, for testing only

foreach (keys %cookies) {
       print cookies here....
        }

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Thanks!

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