jna wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is anyone using CGI.pm and the built in cookie routine? I just implemented
> it on one of my websites storing username and password and retrieving it for
> user identification. Problem is it works for me and for alot of other people
> but there are a large group of people who it is NOT working for? Has anyone
> experienced a split in browser ability with CGI.pm and its cookies? Is this
> a bug or is anyone aware of it? I am certain it cant be my code, else it
> wouldnt work at all?
>
> Snippets:
>
> To issue cookie:
>
> $the_cookie = $cgi->cookie(-name=>'userdata',
> -value=>\%userdata,
> -expires=>'+15m',
> -path=>'/cgi-bin/path',
> -domain=>'.thedomain.com',
> -secure=>0);
> print $cgi->header(-cookie=>$the_cookie);
>
> to grab cookie:
>
> $user = "";
> $pass = "";
> %userdata = $cgi->cookie('userdata');
> foreach ('userid','password','expires') {
> $userdata{$_} = $cgi->param($_) || $userdata{$_};
> }
> $user = $userdata{'userid'};
> $pass = $userdata{'password'};
> $expires = $cgi->cookie('expires');
>
> Any thoughts or ideas ?
Using a hash for the cookie value is going to concatenate them all
together with &'s. I would either use multiple cookies or concatenate
the hash together myself into $value and pass it that way. I'm not
sure what the intent was for using a hash for the cookie value.
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