Morning monks!

I'm writing a script that will keep a login session using cookies (I know, I should use merlyns browser session technique). The problem I am having is that when ever the script gets the cookie values, they are allways '$user' and '$pass'). I've tried varous methods of setting the cookie values, but they all seem to have the same results.

Here is my code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;
use strict;

my $wm = CGI::new();
print $wm->header();

my ($usr,$pw);
if ($ENV{'HTTP_COOKIE'}) {
    $usr = $wm->cookie('user');      
    $pw = $wm->cookie('pass');   
} else {
    $usr = $wm->param('usr');
    $pw = $wm->param('pw');
    
    &set_cookie($usr,$pw,$wm);
}

print<<LOSER;
<html>
<body>
LOSER

if (length($usr) > 0 && length($pw) > 0) {
    #check login. if it fails, display login form (removed because of 
+length)

    #note: right here it would print "Username: $user Password: $pass"
    #which it should print the cookie values for 'user' and 'pass'.
    print "Username: $usr Password: $pw<br>\n";
    
} else {
     #login form (removed because of length)
}
print<<END;
</body>
</html>
END

sub set_cookie {
    my $user = shift;
    my $pass = shift;
        
    if (defined($user) && defined($pass)) { # we set cookie
        # method 1
        print "$user asfsfafaf $pass<br>\n";
        print "Set-Cookie: user=$user;expires=+1hr\n";
        print "Set-Cookie: pass=$pass;expires=+1hr\n";
    }    
}

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Any feedback is appreciated.
^jasper

In reply to Receiving Cookie Values by Jaspersan

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