Really weird. I go to set a cookie: (with the values login and password)
my $cookie = $CGI->cookie(
                                -name=>'stflogin',
                                -value=>$CGI->param("login"),
                                -expires=>'+1m');
my $other_cookie = $CGI->cookie(    
                                -name=>'stfpassword',
                                -value=>$CGI->param("password"),
                                -expires=>'+1m');
print $CGI->header(-cookie=>[$cookie,$other_cookie]);

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which works fine and as expected. I use different code to delete the cookie: 
my $cookie = $CGI->cookie(
                                -name=>'stflogin',
                                -value=>"");
my $other_cookie = $CGI->cookie(
                                -name=>'stfpassword',
                                -value=>"");
print $CGI->header(-cookie=>[$cookie,$other_cookie]);

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The result is hardly as I expected:
$ENV{HTTP_COOKIE} is

stflogin=login; stfpassword=password; stflogin=; stfpassword=

Whats up with that? When I use ->cookie() it gives me the value set by the first chunk of code (not the "delete cookie" code.) What am I doing wrong?

In reply to Weird CGI Cookie Problem by Anonymous Monk

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