I'm having trouble setting & retrieving cookies with WindowsXP. I've setup a test server on my computer to develope & debug new code, before using it on my website.

To set a cookie, I use:
#!c:/perl/bin/perl -wT

use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use strict;

my $foo = new CGI;

my $id_value = 123;
my $var = 'someString';

my $cookie_id = $foo->cookie(-name => 'id',
                -value => "$id_value",
                -expires => '+18h',
                -path => '/');
my $cookie_var = $foo->cookie(-name => 'something',
                -value => "$var",
                -expires => '+18h', 
                -path => '/');

print $foo->header(-cookie => [$cookie_id, $cookie_var]);

print "<A HREF=\"check_cookie.cgi\">Check Cookie</A>\n";

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To check to see if the cookie was set, I use the following script (check_cookie.cgi):

#!c:/perl/bin/perl -wT

use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use strict;

my $foo = new CGI;

print $foo->header;

my $id = $foo->param('id');
my $var = $foo->param('something');

print "$id<BR><BR>$var";

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The problem is that the cookie isn't being set. It sets fine on the machine that my website is running on (a Linux box), but the cookies don't seem to set on the computer that I'm attempting to code & test on.

Can anyone offer me some advice/help solving this problem? It would be MUCH appreciated.

System info:
I've setup apache, MySQL, phpMyAdmin and PERL on my computer using PHPTriad. I've upgraded phpMyAdmin to the latest version, and have installed a full version of ActivePerl that I use, instead of the PERL installation that came with it. All this is being run on WinXP. All is functioning fine, except for the cookies.

Steny

In reply to Setting & Retrieving cookies on WindowsXP problem... by Steny

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