You are right, I meant browser, not apache. At any rate, on my platform, for whatever reason, your code does not result in my browsers (FF, Chrome) storing the cookies it sends. My "incorrect" code does, though; all the more reason to not trust documentation...

--EDIT--

Nevermind. Your code works actually! What can I say.

In exactly what version of CGI.pm did this behaviour change remains an open question, though. I was using the code in my OP quite satisfactorily for at least a year and a half...

In reply to Re^6: CGI error: "Invalid header value contains a newline not followed by whitespace" by MyMonkName
in thread CGI error: "Invalid header value contains a newline not followed by whitespace" by MyMonkName

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