Revered Monks,

I am currently working on a project that will have a members only area that requires some authentication and session tracking. Examining the excellent CPAN, I find and decide to use CGI::Session to manange my sessions. The code I am using to create my session and cookie is below.

Hosting Environment: Win32 & IIS thru Verio. 

use lib ('path/to/my/lib');
use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp('fatalsToBrowser');
use Win32::ODBC;
use CGI::Session;

my $q = new CGI;
my $session = new CGI::Session("driver:File", $q, {Directory=>'..\sess
+ions'});

---do db search----
    if ($found) {
        $session->param("name", $memb_name);

        #set a cookie
        my $cookie = $q->cookie(-name     =>'member',
                                -value    =>'test',
                                -domain   =>'.relationshiphelp.org',
                                -expires  =>"+3h",
                                CGISESSID =>$session->id);
        print $q->header(-cookie=>$cookie);
        print $session->param("name")."<br>";
        print "Found your user id <br>";
        print $session->id;
        return 1;
    }

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1. If I don't use CGI::Cookie explicitly and then create my cookie using it's methods directly, I never even get a cookie. The CGI.pm cookie method doesn't throw any errors, I just don't get a cookie. I installed the latest version of CGI.pm in my local lib, and no luck. I have Super Searched and Googled to no avail.

2. When I do get a cookie using the method above, it doesn't have the CGISESSID in it. I look at it with ethereal as it comes in, and open the resulting cookie in a text editor after the fact, and the sesion ID isn't there. I can print the session id variable and it appears to be generated correctly, I just can't get it in the cookie.

Is my code obviously flawed? Did I miss a caveat in my searching? I have played with CGI::Session in the past, and gotten this to work with a test script in a BSD hosting environment. Is there an issue with Win32?

Any direction is greatly appreciated.

In reply to CGI.pm, CGI::Session and Cookies by digger

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