After tearing my hear out for more then 3 hours, i thought i share this little thing for novices who try to develop a website with cookies in perl. Battered monks will know this, but it isn't documented anywhere in the documentation around the apache2::cookie module

The thing is, novices start to program from a local machine. And just on this local machine, setting cookies is tricky. The browser seems not to get the cookie in some way.

I finally found the clue somewhere deep down the apache and php documentation. When you sending a cookie from a localhost the domain you should use is a blanc space aka " ". This allow the browser to accept the cookie from the local machine

Sending a cookie with apache2::cookie from a website on localhost, becomes: 

use Apache2::Cookie;

# make a cookie
Apache2::Cookie->new (
		$r,
		-name => 'my_name',
		-value => 'test',
		-path => '/',
		-domain => ' ', #this is the clue...
		-expires => '+15m',
	)->bake($r);
For using MasonX::Request::WithApacheSession, the same problem appears. You should be using something like following settings in your httpd.conf 
PerlSetVar MasonArgsMethod              mod_perl
PerlSetVar MasonRequestClass            MasonX::Request::WithApacheSession
PerlSetVar MasonSessionCookieDomain     " "
PerlSetVar MasonSessionClass            Apache::Session::File
PerlSetVar MasonSessionDirectory        /tmp/www/sessions/data
PerlSetVar MasonSessionLockDirectory    /tmp/www/sessions/locks
PerlSetVar MasonSessionUseCookie        1
I hope this helps novices like me in the futer. Any additional thoughts and remarks are appriciated

In reply to Sending Cookies from localhost with perl by martell

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