Re: Cookies in CGI programs

[Mike.Barton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi
     I have been developing a forums suite of programs in order to enhance
my knowledge/understanding of web apps etc

But one thing has stumped me. ...  Cookies.
I just can't seem to get them working - and without them, it just ain't gonna
work !

As I understand it, I need to initially send the Content Type e.g.
Content-Type: text/html
then on the next line something like:
Set-Cookie: Lastvisit=20020530161359; path=/; domain=wellboro; expires=Friday,
31-May-02 12:00:00 GMT;
where LastVisit=whatever is my variable data and this line is followed by at
least 2 blank lines
before the rest of my html data.

Then when I do a CGIGetEnv('HTTP_COOKIE')   it should return them in a string.

I never get anything returned.

Do I need to encode all the special characters eg convert / to hex 61commas to
hex 6b etc ?

If anyone has some snipets of working code I would be v. gratefull.

Thanx in advance.

Mike




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