Well, as long as we're suggesting solutions that are the antithesis of maintainability and interface abstraction {grin}, you may also want to try FreezeThaw or Storable on your cookie objects. From a cursory glance at the code of the HTTP::Cookies module, I gather that this should work, though I've not actually attempted to do so.

In a perfect world, a from_string method would be implemented alongside the as_string method of HTTP::Cookies. Hint hint... :)

   MeowChow                                   
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