Why does this fail? I have turned on prompt on cookie in my browser so I know the coookie is being set Then when I try to check for the cookie in the logedin sub it fails. I am missing something here, what am I doing wrong??? Thanks :) 
my $foo = crypt($password3, $row[0]);
    if ($foo ne $row[0]) {
        print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
        print "sorry it seems you are unknown to our database";
    } else {
        set_cookie($username);
    }  
    
}

sub set_cookie {
    my $cookie = $q->cookie (    name     =>    "login",
                                value    =>    $username,
                                path    =>    "/cgi-bin");
                                
    print $q->redirect(    -url => "http://www.foo.com/cgi-bin/bar/ind
+ex.cgi?page=logedin",
                        -cookie => $cookie );
}
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sub logedin {
    my $cookie = $q->cookie( -name => "login" );
    
    if (defined $cookie) {
        my $tmpl = new HTML::Template( filename => "../templates/main.
+html");
        $tmpl->param( username => $cookie );
        print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
        print $cookie;
        #print $tmpl->output;    
    } else {
        print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
        print "not logged in";
    }
}
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