8.28 CGI::Cookie

Provides an interface to Netscape (HTTP/1.1) cookies that can be used in conjunction with CGI.pm or independently. To use CGI::Cookie, you create a new cookie object with the constructor new. You can then send the cookie to the browser in one of the following ways:

• From a CGI script, create a Set-Cookie field in the HTTP header for each cookie you want to send ($c is the cookie object):

  print "Set-Cookie: $c0";

• With CGI.pm (see Chapter 10), use the header method with a -cookie argument:

  print header(-cookie=>$c);

• Using mod_perl (see Chapter 11, Web Server Programming with mod_perl), use the request object's header_out method:

  $r->header_out('Set-Cookie',$c);

The following methods are provided for CGI::Cookie:

• new
• as_string
• domain
• expires
• fetch
• name
• parse
• path
• raw_fetch
• value