Re: CGI error: "Invalid header value contains a newline not followed by whitespace"

Works for me once you define the variables being passed into the cookie method.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI;
use CGI::Cookie;

my $q = CGI->new();

my ($username, $secret) = ('wowza','special');


my $set_username = $q->cookie(
      -name => "user_name",
      -value => $username,
      -expires => "+1d",
    );


    my $set_session = $q->cookie(
      -name => "session",
      -value => $secret,
      -expires => "+1d",
    );


print $q->header( -cookie=>[$set_session, $set_username], $q->redirect
+(q|http://www.google.com/|));
#print $q->header();
print $q->html($q->body($q->h1('hi there')));
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Re^2: CGI error: "Invalid header value contains a newline not followed by whitespace" by MyMonkName (Acolyte) on Feb 04, 2012 at 06:47 UTC
I may not have been clear enough in my earlier reply. What I mean to say is: your code throws the same error on my configuration, and so it sounds like the new version of CGI.pm disallows whatever I was used to doing. I hope to understand the issue (sounds like a security precaution) and fix it rather than blindly backing out of the newer version of the CGI library. Thanks!	[reply]
Re^3: CGI error: "Invalid header value contains a newline not followed by whitespace" by Anonymous Monk on Feb 04, 2012 at 08:09 UTC
You call header() and redirect(), but redirect() itself calls header(), and in HTTP you only print headers once	[reply]
Re^2: CGI error: "Invalid header value contains a newline not followed by whitespace" by MyMonkName (Acolyte) on Feb 04, 2012 at 04:00 UTC
What version of Perl and apache have you? Thanks!	[reply]