I'm using Perl CGI and I got 3 script for an login system.

index.pl -> user needs to input stuff here
login.pl -> getting called if the user hits the login button - checks if the enteres stuff is the same in database
result.pl -> getting redirected to this if the login was successfull.

login.pl
# Includes
use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI;
use DBI;
use Digest::MD5 qw(md5 md5_hex md5_base64);

# Get Parameters
my $p_sUsername = param( 'username' );
my $p_sPassword = param( 'password' );
$p_sPassword = md5_hex( $p_sPassword );

if ( !defined( $p_sUsername ) || !defined( $p_sPassword ) ) {
    print redirect( "access-denied.pl" );
}

# DB Stuff done here ...

my $oCGI = CGI->new();
my $oCookie = $oCGI->cookie(
    -name => "user", 
    -value => $p_sUsername
    -expires=>'2h'
);

print redirect( "result.pl", $oCookie );

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result.pl

my $oCGI = CGI->new();
print $oCGI->cookie('user'); # this is empty

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What am I doing wrong? I need to pass data from page to page to be able to check if a user is authenticated or not ...

Update:
Seems like I had to use print $oCGI->redirect( -uri => "orders.pl", -cookie => $oCookie );. Now I can get the username on the second page ...

In reply to Perl Sessions and Cookies - Cookie don't get passed by Yaerox

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