[Techtalk] At Wits' End on Persistent HTTP Cookies

[David Merrill]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 01:02:54PM -0700, Kai MacTane wrote:
> Hi. I'm trying to make a mod_perl/Mason project set a persistent cookie, 
> using the old Netscape cookie spec at 
> http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html . I can make it set a 
> session cookie, no problem, but getting to keep the cookie around for a 
> mere 5 days has driven me to the point of insanity.

Have you tried the "+10d" format rather than a hard coded date? All I
can tell you is that that kind of format works for me.

Are you using CGI.pm? If so, here is what I'm doing:

#START
use CGI;
my $CGI = new CGI;
my $session_id = ( a random text string, not pertinent )
my $cookie=$CGI->cookie(-name    => 'lampadas_session',
                        -value   =>$session_id,
                        -expires => '+1M');
print $CGI->header(-cookie=>$cookie,-expires=>'now');
#END

NOTE: +1M means expire in 1 month.

HTH,

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