Thanx again, here's my code
the file is named: http://cgi.tripod.com/aine_canby/cgi-bin/yop.cgi

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Code
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#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w 
use strict; 

use CGI; 
my $query = new CGI; 

my $cookie_out = $query->cookie(
       -name=>"MY_NAME", 
       -value=>"Barry Griffin",
       -expires=>'+24h', 
       -path=>'/aine_canby/cgi-bin', 
       -domain=>'cgi.tripod.com', 
       -secure=>0

); 

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

print $query->start_html("Cookie Test"); 

# DEBUG TO SCREEN
print $query->p; 
print $query->header(-cookie=>$cookie_out); 
print $query->p; 

my $cookie_in = $query->cookie("MY_NAME"); 

if($cookie_in) 
{ 
   print $cookie_in; 
} 
else 
{ 
   print "Can't find the cookie"; 
} 
print $query->p; 

print $query->end_html; 


----------------------------------------------------------
BROWSER DISPLAYS
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Set-cookie: MY_NAME=Barry%20Griffin; domain=cgi.tripod.com; path=/aine
+_canby/cgi-bin; expires=Monday, 27-Aug-2001 22:50:49 GMT Content-type
+: text/html 

Can't find the cookie

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Cookie Contains -

MY_NAME
Barry%20Griffin
cgi.tripod.com/aine_canby/cgi-bin
0
782699264
29437766
42193056
29437564
*

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In reply to $ENV{'HTTP_COOKIE'} keeps returning null even though ive created the cookie - thanks for the quick reply by Baz
in thread $ENV{'HTTP_COOKIE'} keep returning null even though ive created the cookie by Baz

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