in reply to CGI.pm questions...

There is no need to import CGI::cookie. All neccesary routines are imported by ':standard'.. The use is really simple:
my $cookie = cookie(-NAME => 'name', -VALUE => 'some text', -EXPIRES = +> 'now'); print header(-COOKIE => $cookie, -TYPE => 'text/html');
Regards,
octopus
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