[OT] SSI and cookies

SSI won't do the trick, because SSI doesn't give you the cookies information.

I've seen that statement several times now. Have you looked at $ENV{HTTP_COOKIE} in an included cgi?

Are you talking about cookies and CGI.pm? If that isn't what you mean, would you explain in a little more detail?

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Re: [OT] SSI and cookies by Joost (Canon) on Jul 06, 2005 at 23:45 UTC
I've tried it. You can't set cookies from an SSI included script. I checked it again, you can read cookies from an SSI included script (in apache httpd at least), but it won't help in this case, because you can't reliably redirect from an SSI included script. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re^2: [OT] SSI and cookies by bmann (Priest) on Jul 06, 2005 at 23:57 UTC
You can't set* cookies from an SSI included script.* (emphasis mine) Gotcha - the server will send the header based on .shtml or .html (or however SSI is configured). By the time the included file tries to set a cookie, the header is complete. That's what I was looking for. Thanks!	[reply]