Re: reading cookies from mod_perl HTTP request handlers

[Geoffrey Young]

But, I'm not able to see that cookie when I print $ENV{'HTTP_COOKIE'}
within in header_parse_handler.

%ENV is setup during the fixup phase, so it hasn't been populated yet.

mod_perl docs say that that you can
examine request headers in the PerlHeaderParserHandler.

yes, using something like $r->headers_in. you're actually better off using Apache::Cookie, which is in the libapreq distribution on cpan.

if you want to force %ENV to be setup earlier, try calling

$r->subprocess_env;

in a void context before checking %ENV - it used to segfault for me, but the docs says it should work.

HTH

--Geoff