I've got a problem that I can't find any reason for. I've got a very simple message board for my site and it uses cookies to store user names and hold unix times for post times. Everything works fine on PC's in all browsers, but on the Mac (both IE and Mozilla) the cookies don't store properly.

The cookies store about 50% of the time but they disapear the next time the script trys to store a cookie. I don't know if this is a common problem. Is there a max length for cookies on the mac? Do they read expiration dates differently?
Any ideas? He're a snipit of the code. 
use CGI qw/:standard/;
use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';
use CGI::Cookie;

my $cname = new CGI::Cookie(-name    =>  '2930ForumCookie',
                        -value   =>  "$in{name}|$time|$oldtime",
                        -domain  =>  '.2930online.com',
                        -expires =>  "$exp");

print "Set-Cookie: $cname\n";
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

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$exp is set by a form variable and is either +3M or -3M depending on the setting. I always leave it checked (setting it to +3M). $time is just current unix time and $oldtime is the last post time. This is the only place cookies are set though they are read by several scripts.

Thanks in advance for any help.

In reply to Cookies and the macintosh by Bishma

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