in reply to Setting Cookies First and Redirecting Page

As per the docs, a 'normal' header and a redirect header are mutually exclusive:

"The redirect() function redirects the browser to a different URL. If you use redirection like this, you should not print out a header as well."


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Re^2: Setting Cookies First and Redirecting Page
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 15, 2006 at 18:42 UTC
    I know, but how would I setup the cookies?
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      Looking at the code of redirect() in CGI.pm, it looks to me as though the redirect() header can take a $cookie as an argument: 

      sub redirect {
    my($self,@p) = self_or_default(@_);
    my($url,$target,$status,$cookie,$nph,@other) = 
         rearrange([[LOCATION,URI,URL],TARGET,STATUS,['COOKIE','COOKIE
+S'],NPH],@p);
    $status = '302 Found' unless defined $status;
    $url ||= $self->self_url;
    my(@o);
    foreach (@other) { tr/\"//d; push(@o,split("=",$_,2)); }
    unshift(@o,
     '-Status'  => $status,
     '-Location'=> $url,
     '-nph'     => $nph);
    unshift(@o,'-Target'=>$target) if $target;
    unshift(@o,'-Type'=>'');
    my @unescaped;
    unshift(@unescaped,'-Cookie'=>$cookie) if $cookie;
    return $self->header((map {$self->unescapeHTML($_)} @o),@unescaped
+);
}

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      Why not build your cookie, and then pass it to the redirect() header just as you did for the 'normal' header? (I haven't tried this.)

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        I am using:
        print $query->redirect(-URL => $url,-COOKIE  => [$cookie1,$cookie2]);

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        It redirects, but the cookie doesn't get set.
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