I run this code and it all seems to work other than when the password is correct it will not create the cookie nor will it redirect you to the page. all that it outputs is Set-Cookie: username=param%28%27name%27%29; domain=.storm.prohosting; path=/; expires=Thu, 14-Jun-2001 02:48:01 GMT Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 01:48:01 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Location: http://storm.prohosting.com/fightior/cgi-bin/warrior.pl 
!/usr/local/bin/perl

use CGI ':standard';

print header();
print start_html();
$name=param('name');
open FILE, "user/$name" or die "Error: $!\n";
my %data = ();
while ( my $line = <FILE> ) {
    chomp $line;
    my ($key, $value) = split(/\s*:\s*/, $line);
    $data{$key} = $value;
}
close FILE;
#this section checks if the password is correct and lets you into the 
+game or tells
#you that the password was incorect
if (param('password') eq $data{password}) {# if the password is correc
+t you enter the game
my $query = CGI->new();
my $cookie = $query->cookie(-name=>'username',
                            -values=>'param('name')',
                            -expires=>'+1h',
                            -domain=>'.perlmonks.org');
print $query->header(-cookie=>$cookie); 
print URI: http://www.storm.prohosting.com/cgi-bin/warropr.pl;

}
if (param('password') ne $data{password})  {#this part tells you if th
+e password was not
open (NOPASS, "../password.htm");
    for $line (<NOPASS>) {
        print $line;
    }
}
close NEWFILE ;
close NOPASS;
end_html();

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