Ah. Looks like I'm not getting enough sleep either. Allow me to clear up a couple of things about the code I posted for the benefit of everyone trying (very kindly!) to help me out.

First, the reason that I was setting two cookies (actually, the same cookie twice) was that after things didn't work, I was hoping that maybe if I just set the cookie twice I could having to run the whole script twice. I meant to change it back to just a single cookie before I posted the code, but obviously, I forgot. =)

Secondly, the setting code and the fetching code were indeed run in seperate scripts, which were run several seconds apart...i.e. I ran the setting code, took a moment to look at some output, then typed the URL for the fetching script and ran it. So the problem isn't a timing issue. Good call though, to those who suggested that might be it

After working on the code a little more, I found a solution: the setting code works fine the first time IF I don't use CGI::Cookie. Instead I just do: 
print"Set-Cookie: botLogin=$username:$trueName:$Hash\n";
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

[download]
Instead of: 
my $cookie = $cgi->cookie(
           -name=>'botLogin',
           -value=>"$username:$trueName:$Hash");
print $cgi->header(-cookie=>[$cookie,$cookie]),
$cgi->start_html(-title=>'Login');

[download]
Try as I might, I could never get it to work on the first run using CGI::Cookie. Any thoughts on why?

In reply to Re: Re: Cookies Not Getting Set First Time by Anonymous Monk
in thread Cookies Not Getting Set First Time by Anonymous Monk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.