#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

use CGI;
my $query = new CGI;

my $cookie = $query->cookie(CGISESSID => 'werd');

print $query->header( -cookie=>$cookie, -location=>'http://www.google.
+com/' ); #<-- this is the important line!

exit;
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thanks for the reply,
yes, you code doesn't work,
Im still in login page, with this lines displayed:
Set-Cookie: CGISESSID=e7ed07c2bae89b1ff8418f42889538b5; path=/ Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 21:17:13 GMT Location: http://localhost/cgi-bin/welcome.pl Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
is there something wrong with IE?

Hmm, it worked for me. Are you using CGI.pm? Can you post the code? Maybe there's something else you're overlooking.

#!c:/perl/bin/perl.exe -w
$cfh = select (STDOUT); 
$| = 1; 
select ($cfh); 
#the above line is to provide the scripts interpreter location--------
+>scripts: login.pl
#---------------------------------------session_start.pl
#---------------------------------------#include the libraries:
 use CGI qw/:standard/;                 # load standard CGI routines
 use CGI;                               #load the object orentird CGI
 use DBI;                               # load DBI library
 use CGI::Session;                      # load the Session library
 use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);     # load CGI-Carp for browser er
+rors handling 
 my $query = new CGI;
#---------------------------------------#


if( $query->param("Submit") ){
    
our $message;
#-------check the login
if ($query->param("login")) {
       $login1 = $query->param("login");
       unless ($login1 =~ /^[a-z0-9_]+$/) {
        $login = '';
    $message .= 'The login ID contains invalid character!<br>';
       }else{  $login = $query->param("login") }
}else{
    my $login = '';
       $message .= 'You forget to enter your login ID!<br>';
}


    #-------check the password
if ($query->param("password")) {
        $password1 = $query->param("password");
         unless ($password1 =~ /^[a-z0-9_]+$/) {
        $password = '';
    $message .= 'The password contains invalid character!<br>';
       }else{  $password = $query->param("password") }
         
}else{
    my $password = '';
       $message .= 'You forget to enter your password!<br>';
}

    if  ($login && $password) {
  
     
#----------------------     
my $sqlstatement="bla bla";

my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sqlstatement);
$sth->execute || die "Could not execute SQL statement ... maybe invali
+d?  $DBI::errstr";
my @row=$sth->fetchrow_array;
if (@row) {
  
  our $first_name = $row[0];
  our $last_name = $row[1];
  our $user_id = $row[2];
  our $admin = $row[3];
  our $user_address = $row[4];

       
#----------create the user session
my $session = new CGI::Session("driver:File", $query, {'Directory' => 
+"C:\\session\\"} ) or die "S!";
   $session->header();
my $session_id = $session->id();                    #get the session I
+D
   $session->param('username', $username);          #add the username 
+to the session
   $session->param('user_id', $user_id);            #add the user_id t
+o the session
   $session->param('first_name', $first_name);      #add the first_nam
+e to the session
   $session->param('last_name', $last_name);        #add the last_name
+ to the session
   $session->param('address', $user_address);       #add the address t
+o the session
   $session->param('admin', $admin);                #add the admin ide
+ntity to the session
   
                       #save session params in the $query object
 
   $session->expire('+10m');                         #session should e
+xpire after 10 minutes



$cookie = $query->cookie(CGISESSID => $session->id);
print $query->header( -cookie=>$cookie );


print $query->header(-type => 'text/html', -cookie=>$cookie, -location
+=>'http://localhost/cgi-bin/cars/loggedin.pl' ); 
exit;



#-------------- finish MySQL statement   
$sth->finish();

#-------------- disconnect from database
$dbh->disconnect();





}else{   $message .= 'The username and the password do not match <br>t
+hose in the record.<br>';   }
   
   
    }else{ $message .= 'Try again.'; }





} #---------the param bracket
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Glad it's working now! :) I assume you took out the first "print $query->header( -cookie=>$cookie );" to fix it? I think you can also safely remove the "-type => 'text/html'," part from the second one. You're not actually outputting any HTML, just redirecting.

U r correct, also I took the ‘-type => 'text/html' out, as u said, and now it works as Perl should be,
hey monk thanks again for this straight forward answer,
keep up the good job ;)