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OS: Windows XP
Web Server: IIS
Perl: ActivePerl


I am finding it difficult to deal with cookie in Perl CGI. I have a webpage, say Login Page, where on the admin enters the credentials and after validating the credentials he/she is presented with subsequent webpages as he/she browses them. No webpage must be directly opened by entering its URL / Bookmark without providing the credentials.

Hence, I need to store the credentials and they need to be checked by each web page before their contents are displayed.

By following this perl doc: http://perldoc.perl.org/CGI/Cookie.html I have been able to store cookies and display them somehow but am not sure as to how to make them accessible to the Next Web Page that does not store/create them and just needs to use their values.

I used this: 

$login_cookie        = new CGI::Cookie(-name=>'loginID',-value=>'admin
+');
$password_cookie    = new CGI::Cookie(-name=>'loginPassword',-value=>'
+go');
print header(-cookie=>[$login_cookie,$password_cookie]);

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The last line causes the following output to be displayed: 

Set-Cookie: loginID=admin; path=/ Set-Cookie: loginPassword=go; path=/
+ Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:42:20 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset
+=ISO-8859-1

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And these lines do not work: 

%cookies = CGI::Cookie->fetch;
for (keys %cookies) {
print($cookies{$_});
}

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Most likely, I am not able to understand as to how to handle cookie in Perl CGI. This is where I am finding myself very poor and am being forced to move to some other stuff such as PHP wherein handling Cookie is just like going to a candy shop. However, that is not what I want to. I want to know how to do these stuffs in Perl. And that's why I an here in this Monastery!

In reply to Cookie and Session by devarishi

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