Perl Cookie Generator

Nice script!

Now just print out the code to read the cookie also, and it will be perfect

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Patrick is my hero.

Neat script! But when I try to use it...

print "Set-Cookie: name=value; path=/yourname; expires=$expdate; domain=yoursite.com\n";

That prints out as text on the page reading:
Set-Cookie: name=value; path=/yourname; expires=$expdate; domain=yoursite.com

Any way to fix this??

--Edge

Edge:
Do you have
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

before you set the cookie? I beleive you must set cookies before priting out any headers.

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[This message has been edited by robp (edited 24 March 2000).]

I'll make a note about that when I update the page this weekend.

robp - technically, Set-cookie: ... and Content-type: ... are both headers. His problem was that he was printing the blank line BEFORE he was printing the Set-cookie header.

code:

print "Content-type: text/html\n";
print "Set-cookie: ...\n";
print "\n"; # <-- the blank line
[/code]

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orph - nice program. personally, I use CGI::Cookie, because it does the hardest part for me -- the expiration date creation. You can pass it a value like "+3m" and it'll set the expiration date from 3 minutes from now. That way, you don't need to figure out the day of the week, etc.

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MIDN 4/C PINYAN, NROTCURPI, US Naval Reserve

Japh You need to print the set-cookie: before the print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; If I remember correctly set-cookie is an HTTP header function and the browser does need to retrieve it before the html starts.

Hey, where'd your neat script go?! It's gone now.

--Edge

i had to take it down, cuz i lost it when the host transfered.