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Perl & Cookies & Internet Explorer

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lezhik

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Couldn't get cookies back from IE. tried to send them in two ways:
1)
print "Set-cookie: CFISESSID=$sid; path=/pepsite\n";
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
2)
$cgi=new CGI;
$session = new CGI::Session(undef, $sid, {Directory => '/tmp'});
$cookie = $cgi->cookie(-name => 'CGISESSID', -value => $sid, -path=>'/pepsite/cgi-bin');
print $cgi->header(-type=>'text/html',-cookie => $cookie);
getting cookie with:
$sid = $cgi->cookie('CGISESSID') || undef;

both variants works correctly for opera and netscape, but not for IE, what is the problem?
 
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I have to ask the obvious: is IE set to accept cookies?

There's always a better way. The fun is trying to find it!
 
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It was the first thing that I have checked, IE accepts cookies from other sites, no secure restrictions for this site.
Of cause it posssible, to pass session id via URL, but I want to implement normal solution with cookies.
 
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Some questions:
1) How do you know the cookies are not being set?
2) Have you tried a different browser?
3) Does your script print anything before the header?

 
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Try with this code:

print "P3P: CP=\"CAO DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa OUR IND PHY ONL UNI COM NAV INT DEM PRE\"\n";
print "Set-Cookie: CFISESSID=$sid; domain=.YOURDOMAIN.COM; path=/\n";
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

Change .YOURDOMAIN.COM to your domain, e.g. .something.com

See if this works and then work from that up.
 
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Just some observations...

IMHO, I wouldn't use $cgi for variable name - too much a risk for future releases as it may be, or could become a reserved word.

What value are you giving to $sid here: print "Set-cookie: CFISESSID=$sid; path=/pepsite\n";

or here: $session = new CGI::Session(undef, $sid, {Directory => '/tmp'});

There's always a better way. The fun is trying to find it!
 
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As i investigate it is not a script problem, but problem is between Apache and IE, that is the result of telnet on 80 port:

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.

Escape character is '^]'.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:46:08 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.50 (Unix) mod_jk2/2.0.4-dev
Set-cookie: CGISESSID=f2275f7a11ea1dbf01bbc271fdfaf1e3
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

<html>...</html>

It seems to me that IE just ignore evrything before the "connection: close
 
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