Making Cookies Stick

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks, I'm using the following command to set cookies:

print "Set-Cookie: LOGIN_NAME=$NAME_CHOICE; expires=1d\n";
print "Set-Cookie: CITY=@infor[0]; expires=1d\n";
print "Set-Cookie: WALLPAPER=@infor[1]; expires=1d\n";
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It works just fine until I close the browser. Is there a way to keep the cookies even after the brower is closed so the next browser that is opened can still read these cookies, until they expire 1 day later?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

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Re: Making Cookies Stick by ccn (Vicar) on Aug 27, 2004 at 20:19 UTC
You must provide proper format for 'expires' part of cookie. It's a full date like 'expires=Sat, 28-Aug-2004 20:16:30 GMT' You can make your task easier with CGI::Cookie P.S. a browser settings must allow permanent cookies also	[reply]
Re: Making Cookies Stick by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Aug 27, 2004 at 20:19 UTC
use CGI's cookie() routine. It will do things no-one but Stein is aware of. `use CGI qw( cookie ); print cookie( -name => 'LOGIN_NAME', -value => $NAME_CHOICE, -expires => '+1d', );` [download] And, so forth. ------ We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age. Then there are Damian modules.... sigh* ... that's not about being less-lazy -- that's about being on some really good drugs -- you know, there is no spoon.* - flyingmoose I shouldn't have to say this, but any code, unless otherwise stated, is untested	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Making Cookies Stick by Fletch (Bishop) on Aug 27, 2004 at 23:23 UTC
And on an unrelated note, `@array[0]` is wrong; you have a one element slice where you should be using `$array[0]`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]