Capturing cookies

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Re: Capturing cookies by wfsp (Abbot) on Dec 29, 2004 at 16:24 UTC
Hi Tom, Welcome to the monestary! Is your web site, like mine, a collection of html pages? If it is then Perl can't do this directly. If one of your pages has a form that a visitor can fill out and then click the submit button then you may be in business. You can set the form up to 'submit' the form details to a cgi script written in Perl. The script can then set and retrieve cookies (as edan has pointed out above). Have a look at the cgi tutorials to get an idea of what is involved. Best of luck btw you can get quite a lot of useful info from the access logs	[reply]
Re: Capturing cookies by edan (Curate) on Dec 29, 2004 at 16:19 UTC
Untested code: `use CGI::Cookie; use strict; my %cookies = CGI::Cookie->fetch(); warn "$_: " . $cookies{$_}->value() for keys %cookies;` [download] -- edan	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Capturing cookies by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Dec 29, 2004 at 16:04 UTC
What have you tried? How has it failed? What ideas have you had? More importantly, why do you want to do this? This sounds somewhat spyware-ish ... Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing. Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid. Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence. Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.	[reply]