CGI::Cookie parse

[Aaron Ross]

Hi!
  I'm trying to write an AccessHandler. I'm using CGI::Cookie to, you got it,
create and parse Cookies.  However, I'm getting an error that I don't totally
understand. ( This is mod_perl related... just hold on. )

  If i call 
        CGI::Cookie->parse($r->headers_in->get('Cookie'));
  I will get this error:
        Can't call method "register_cleanup" on an undefined value at 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/CGI.pm line 262.

  Now that is on this line in the CGI.pm constructor:

   if ($MOD_PERL) {
--->    Apache->request->register_cleanup(\&CGI::_reset_globals);
        undef $NPH;
    }

  Why does that fail? I'm running under mod_perl.. I mean this is failing when
it is called from a PerlAccessHandler!

  My second question is why does CGI::Cookie create CGI object just to get a
url! The call to CGI::new is becuase of this call in CGI::Cookie->new():

    # IE requires the path and domain to be present for some reason.
    $path   = CGI::url(-absolute=>1) unless defined $path;
    # $path = "/" unless defined $path;

  removing the call to CGI::url fixes the error. 

 So.. any advice or explanation?

Aaron