I'm experiencing strange behavior with cookies when my scripts are accessed in mod_perl (using Apache::Registry). Everything works fine so long as my browser is configured to not go through a proxy (ie, in Netscape 4.77, "directly connected to the Internet" option is selected). When I configure it to use a custom proxy (eg, Junkbuster running on my LAN gateway), my cookies no longer work, but I can still browse the web fine.
I should point out that everything works ok when the scripts are accessed as CGI's rather than mod_perl. Hence I'm fairly certain the problem is not with the Junkbuster proxy, but has something to do with mod_perl. These are the software versions: Debian/Linux 3.0 Apache 1.3.26 + mod_ssl 2.8.9 (running in proxy accelerator mode) Apache 1.3.26 + mod_perl 1.26 Perl 5.6.1 I'm using CGI.pm to create the cookie headers. Typical code looks like this: # Setting a cookie # (the test.pl script will retrieve the cookie and check auth_info) $cookie = MI_BakeCookie($q, $form->{'email'}, $form->{'passwd'}); print $q->redirect(-cookie=>$cookie, -url=>"/perl/test.pl?op=menu"); # Retrieving a cookie $cookie = $q->cookie('auth_info'); @form{'email', 'crypt'} = split (':', $cookie); # The function that creates the cookies... # Creates a temporary auth_info cookie which contains the user's # email address and encrypted password (MD5 hash). sub MI_BakeCookie { my ($q, $email, $password) = @_; my $crypt = md5_hex($password); my $auth_info = join (':', $email, $crypt); my $cookie = $q->cookie(-name=>'auth_info', -value=>$auth_info, # -expires=>'+10d', -path=>'/', -secure=>0 # haven't changed this yet... ); return ($cookie); } It's all pretty straightforward stuff... which is why I'm confused and hope that someone might have an idea as to what's going on here. I'm open to any suggestions, but alas I don't have a lot of time to spare so can't really afford to make my own custom handler and switch to Apache::Cookie or whatnot. But if that's the only solution, then I gotta do what I gotta do. Anyway, please let me know if you have any ideas. :)