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Cookie problem

Hi all,

I need to set a cookie in the client machine and then display some html content. The problem is, I am supposed to set the cookie using perl code which is an include file in a .shtml page.

Thanks in advance,
Vasavi.

Peewee

vasavi,

here is example use of setting a cookie within your perl script, there are many different ways of doing this:

use CGI qw/:standard/;
use CGI::Cookie;

# Create new cookies and send them
$cookie1 = new CGI::Cookie(-name=>'ID',-value=>123456);
$cookie2 = new CGI::Cookie(-name=>'preferences',
-value=>{ font => Helvetica,
size => 12 }
);
print header(-cookie=>[$cookie1,$cookie2]);

============= feteching them ==================
# fetch existing cookies
%cookies = fetch CGI::Cookie;
$id = $cookies{'ID'}->value;
# create cookies returned from an external source
%cookies = parse CGI::Cookie($ENV{COOKIE});

regards
Peewee

Peewee

vasavi,

a further example of setting a cookie:

$c = new CGI::Cookie(-name => 'foo',
-value => 'bar',
-expires => '+3M',
-domain => '.capricorn.com',
-path => '/cgi-bin/database'
-secure => 1
);

a good resource site for cooies is: http://www.cookiecentral.com/

regards Peewee

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vasavi,

please clean up the status of this question?

regards Peewee

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