"I want to create a basic cookie that retrieves the users ip and browser information"

Errrrr.... perhaps you should Google for "cookie" and ("faq" or "tutorial") or something similar. Using a cookie for your purposes sounds a lot like using a backhoe to put sugar in your tea. It can be done, but it's certainly the hard way. Customarily, cookies are used for session identification (benign) or tracking (often not benign).

The information you're seeking is probably already in your server's log files; it's also readily obtained with a trivial script (IIRC, there's such a script here; a little Super Searching should let you find it -- which is my copout for 'sorry, no link because I didn't find it with a cursory search.'

Backtracking now, to your update of your initial question: see answer beginning with "Errrr." Re creating cookies without using CGI, as moritz said, there are ways to do so... but from your Re^2: cookie ssss, that doesn't sound like the way to do it. So -- again -- before you put a lot of effort into creating cookies, read about their use... and read about how to collect information in visitors' ips and browswers.