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barbie
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Friday October 11, 2002
07:00 AM

CGI, cookies & mod_perl

[ #8319 ]
After the last week of being baffled as to why session entries keep dropping, I suddenly discover the code in CGI.pm to be at fault.

Running under mod_perl, the cookies are cached by CGI.pm. If those values change they are ignored in preference to the cached versions. I now call CGI::Cookie->fetch directly. A shame the CGI pod page doesn't mention it though. Might have saved me a weeks worth of tweeking.


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  • I know that CGI.pm has special mod_perl code to add a cleanup handler to reset back to initial state. If that's not working for you, please report the bug.
    --
    • Randal L. Schwartz
    • Stonehenge
    • I don't think it's a bug, more the way that CGI->cookie() works. I'm using the NMS version of cookielib, which uses it, although I've changed it to use the CGI::Cookie->fetch mechanism for our purposes.

      If there are special mod_perl prerequisites then they aren't specified under the "HTTP COOKIES" section of the POD, which is where I would have expected them. I checked for mod_perl references in the POD, of which there are two, and neither mention anything about the handling of cookies :(

      I've notic

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