Set and get cookie using perl

[slyen]

Hello,
I am working on setting cookie on perl.
when I did hard code sample cookie in the header ...

 
print "Set-Cookie: mycookie=testing;expires=Mon, 29-Jul-2008 15:00:00 GMT;domain=www3.cs.umanitoba.ca;path=/~umen/cgi-
print "Content-type: text/html\n";
print "Pragma: no-cache\n\n";

when I tried to retrieve it using ...

$ENV{HTTP_COOKIES}

It is always empty ...
Why?
does anyone know how to solve this problem?
Another thing is ... if I want to set the cookie after user has log in to a page and verified with his userid and password, what I can do?
I tried to use

print header(-cookie=>"Set-Cookie: name=value ....\n");

my execution actually dies here....
is my code right?
Thanks

[pageBuzz.com]

You have the order wrong. First define the content type, then the cookie then the extra stuff if you need it.

print "content-type:text/html\n";
print "set-cookie: value=$value; path=$path; expires=$expire\n\n";

That will solve your problem.

You can set your browser to warn you when a cookie is being set, that way you know when you access the page if it is working before trying to read it.