Hello Monks, I am have some very simple code that is completely baffling me. I have an HTML file that sets cookies. I have another html file that displays the cookies perfectly. I have also written a simple Perl script that does not show the cookies consistently. I have listed each piece of code below:

Set the cookie - works as expected: 

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HEAD>
    <TITLE>Test</TITLE>
    <script type='text/Javascript'>
        document.cookie="ff=1;";
        document.cookie="gg=;";
    </script>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
    Cookie Set
</BODY>
</HTML>

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Show the cookie with HTML - works as expected: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
 <HEAD>
  <TITLE> Test </TITLE>
 </HEAD>

 <BODY>
    <script type='text/Javascript'>
        alert(document.cookie);
    </script>
 </BODY>
</HTML>

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Show the cookie with Perl - only works if cookie is empty 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI::Cookie;

%cookies = fetch CGI::Cookie();
$ctab .= "<table border=1>";
$ctab .= "<tr><td>Name</td><td>Value</td></tr>\n";

foreach $c (keys %cookies) {
        $v = $cookies{$c} -> value();
        $ctab .= "<tr><td>$c</td><td>$v</td></tr>\n";
        }

$ctab .= "</table><BR><BR>";


print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print $ctab;

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I have tried this on a few servers.

One: Free BSD / Apache 1.3.41 / Perl 5.6.1 shows both cookies with Perl and both with html.

Two: Red Hat ES 4 / Apache 2.0.52 / Perl 5.8.5 shows no cookies with Perl script and both with html.

Three: Red Hat 5.3 / Apache 2.2.3 / Perl 5.8.8 shows only empty cookies (gg) with Perl and both with html.

I have no idea why javascript shows the cookies are there and Perl does not recognize them. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You.

In reply to Problems reading ALL cookies by Hammy

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