in reply to Removing dot before cookie host/domain URL

Why can't you look at how the "perl-based program on my domain" does it?

Update: Assuming you're using CGI, your claims appear to be incorrect 

$ perl -MCGI=cookie -E'
   say cookie(
      -name   => "TheCookie",
      -value  => "anything",
      -domain => "foobar.com",
   );
'
TheCookie=anything; domain=foobar.com; path=/

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Re^2: Removing dot before cookie host/domain URL
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 24, 2011 at 19:39 UTC
    The program seems to use CGI for the cookies (according to the installation module list). However it contains 25 folders, countless files, and a nightmare of global scalars. I haven't yet found the code for the cookie. I thought that it would be easier and more efficient to just overwrite the cookie.

    Below is my code which adds the dot before the URL. 
    #!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI;
$query = new CGI;

$cookie1 = $query->cookie(
-domain=>'foobar.com',
-name=>'TheCookie',
-value=>'anything ',
-expires=>'+24h',
-path=>'/',
-secure=> 0);

print $query->header(-cookie=>$cookie1);

print"<html>
<body>
Done.
</body>
</html>";

print $query->end_html;

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[d/l]

      Again, I think you are mistaken. 

      $ cat > a.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI;
$query = new CGI;

$cookie1 = $query->cookie(
-domain=>'foobar.com',
-name=>'TheCookie',
-value=>'anything ',
-expires=>'+24h',
-path=>'/',
-secure=> 0);

print $query->header(-cookie=>$cookie1);

print"<html>
<body>
Done.
</body>
</html>";

print $query->end_html;

$ perl a.pl
Set-Cookie: TheCookie=anything%20; domain=foobar.com; path=/; expires=
+Sat, 25-Jun-2011 20:46:56 GMT
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:46:56 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

<html>
<body>
Done.
</body>
</html>
</body>
</html>
$

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      Upgrade your CGI?

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[d/l]
        Hi, I have CGI v3.55 installed.

        I fired up IE and checked the code/cookie there. It seems that the problem with the dot does not occur with IE but with Mozilla based browsers. However, I still can't get a cookie without a dot before the URL in a Mozilla browser.
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