problem using the set-cookie and the Location headers together

motasem1973 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all,

I am trying to use both the Set-Cookie and Location headers together in my script to, first, store my cookie and then redirect execution to another script. The code used is the following:

print "Set-Cookie: $cookie","\n";
print "Location: /cgi-bin/enquiry.pl","\n\n";
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The result is that the cookie is stored successfully BUT the redirection is not working (the browser is showing a white screen without output) (The redirection header when used alone is working). Where could the problem be? any way around the problem?

Help is highly appreciated,
Motasem

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Re: problem using the set-cookie and the Location headers together by shmem (Chancellor) on Sep 03, 2008 at 20:23 UTC
Use CGI. Use CGI! `my $q = CGI->new; my $cookie = $q->cookie ( -name => 'PLAETZCHEN', -value => Digest::MD5::md5_hex(time.{}.rand().$$), ); print $q->redirect (-cookie => $cookie, -uri => $url);` [download] and use an absolute URL.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: problem using the set-cookie and the Location headers together by SFLEX (Chaplain) on Sep 03, 2008 at 19:56 UTC
you have to redirect before you store a cookie.	[reply]
Re: problem using the set-cookie and the Location headers together by Anonymous Monk on Sep 04, 2008 at 08:06 UTC
Are you using IIS? set-cookie with location -> BUG: Set-Cookie Is Ignored in CGI When Combined With Location	[reply]
Re: problem using the set-cookie and the Location headers together by toolz (Initiate) on Nov 30, 2012 at 19:21 UTC
I recently discovered this trick to accomplish what you want: `print "Set-Cookie: foo=blah; path=/\n"; print "Refresh: 0; URL = /cgi-bin/enquiry.pl\n"; print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]