SPUG: CGI::Cookies question

[David Waring]

I had a problem like this with IE last year. Seems to be a bug in IE. 
Turns out if you set a cookie with no value, IE (at least v4 and v5 
on NT) will not accept any other cookies from that domain. If I 
remember correctly it behaved as if it was accepting the cookie but 
it really didn't. Perhaps this is the problem.

David Waring


>Friends,
>	I guess I'll take advantage of this slow period on the list to ask my
>stupid question.  The problem I'm having is that I have a problem with IE
>accepting my cookies.  My code is thus:
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>use CGI qw/:standard/;
>use CGI::Cookie;
>
>print SetStandardCookies($UserName, $Password);
>
>s*b SetStandardCookies
>	{
>	my ($UserName, $Password) = @_;
>
>	my ($UserNameCookie, $PasswordCookie);
>
>	$UserNameCookie = new CGI::Cookie(-name    =>  'UserName',
>                     -value   =>  $UserName,
>                     -domain  =>  'cdarley.dyndns.org',
>                     -path    =>  '/games/',
>                     -expires =>  "+1h");
>
>	$PasswordCookie = new CGI::Cookie(-name    =>  'Password',
>                     -value   =>  $Password,
>                     -domain  =>  'cdarley.dyndns.org',
>                     -path    =>  '/games/',
>                     -expires =>  "+1h");
>	return header(-cookie=>[$UserNameCookie, $PasswordCookie]);
>	};
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>	It sets the cookie on Netscape, and used to set the cookie on 
>IE browsers
>when my application was being served from a Win98 machine, but now that I've
>ported it to Apache mod_perl under Linux, IE doesn't end up with any
>cookies.  Anybody have any experience with this kind of thig, or is there
>some obvouse error in my code?
>
>	Thanks for your help!
>
>Peter Darley
>
>
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