More Cookie Problmes....

I have read through many of the cookie related posts in this forum. Seems that cookies should be easy with CGI.pm which I am using. I have two very simple scripts below. The cookie gets set in IE but not in Netscape! Any suggestions or ideas on why this is not working?

cookie.cgi - This one sets the cookie (or should!)

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

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

my $q = new CGI;

my $cookie = $q->cookie( -NAME => "user",
-VALUE => "lane",
-EXPIRES => "+12h",
-PATH => "/",
-DOMAIN => ".lanevance.com",
-SECURE => 0);

my $location = "http://lanevance.com/index.cgi";
print $q->header(-COOKIE => $cookie,
-LOCATION => $location);



index.cgi - This one reads the cookie and prints the value

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

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

my $q = new CGI;

my $user = $q->cookie("user");

print $q->header();
print "Username from the cookie is $user!";

After some trial and error I have discovered that the following is what is chocking Netscape up:

-DOMAIN => ".lanevance.com",

Any ideas why? Without this in the cookie it sets in both NN and IE. I would like to be able to set the domain because I use a shared SSL cert and the login page I will be using should be secure. If I don't have the domain set then the cookie will be set for the web server name not my domain name.

Any work-arounds?

I converted yours to one cgi as :



#-----------------------
apologies Munday morning formatting in above code.

This code should allow you to keep refreshing and looking to see if user is set in cookie.

-- Note Netscape cookies are not stored in "Temporary Internet files" folder but under "program files/netscape/users" folder in cookie.txt.

Try posting on your site with your domain and without your
domain and see what happens.