CGI::Session multiple cookies

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

Heya Monks, looking for some wisdom cauz I am lost in the sessions... Running IIS5 & Activestate Perl (can't help it) index.pl looks like this:

...
my $session = new CGI::Session(undef, undef, {Directory=>'c:\perl\temp
+\sessions'});
$session->param('UID', $UID);
$session->param('UNME', $UNME);
$session->param('GID', $GID);
print $session->header();
...
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When I debug I can see the header: Set-Cookie: CGISESSID=3b488a17c9cce9bc4dcf4654db65364c; path=/ and IE says it accepted the cookie. However When loading a new framepage using the same

my $session = new CGI::Session(undef, undef, {Directory=>'c:\perl\temp
+\sessions'});
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which should check if the cookie is already created, a new cookie is generated, therefore loosing all my session details. Any ideas? Thanks!

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Re: CGI::Session multiple cookies by RaginElmo (Novice) on Oct 11, 2005 at 20:28 UTC
Oops... need to retrieve the cookie from client... `my $cgi=new CGI; my $sid = $cgi->cookie("CGISESSID") \|\| undef; my $session = new CGI::Session(undef, $sid, {Directory=>'c:\perl\temp\ +sessions'});` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: CGI::Session multiple cookies by tomazos (Deacon) on Oct 11, 2005 at 17:35 UTC
Are you setting the cookie on a different domain to where you want it sent back? If so, this is not allowed for security reasons. The web browser will ignore you and send no cookie header. This makes your server think you don't have a cookie and it generates a new one. -Andrew. Andrew Tomazos \| andrew@tomazos.com \| www.tomazos.com	[reply]
Re: CGI::Session multiple cookies by RaginElmo (Novice) on Oct 11, 2005 at 17:47 UTC
No I am using HTML templates and it just loads a relative link. First page is index.pl which creates a HTML page. `<FRAME src="left.html" name="left" scrolling="no" noresize> <FRAME src="main.pl" name="main" scrolling="auto" noresize>` [download] so there is no change of domain/server	[reply] [d/l]
Re: CGI::Session multiple cookies by RaginElmo (Novice) on Oct 11, 2005 at 19:39 UTC
To simplify #session.pl `# Object initialization: use CGI::Session; $session = new CGI::Session(undef, undef, {Directory=>'c:\perl\temp\se +ssions'}); # send proper HTTP header with cookies: print $session->header(); print $session->header(); print "click <A href='session2.pl'> here";` [download] #session2.pl `# Object initialization: use CGI::Session; $session = new CGI::Session(undef, undef, {Directory=>'c:\perl\temp\se +ssions'}); # send proper HTTP header with cookies: print $session->header(); print $session->header();` [download] the double print is to show the session on the page. both times the cookies are set in Firefox but change the moment I click to next page. Host and path are both the same... ...insane in the membrane...	[reply] [d/l] [select]