Problem setting cookies

[NigeW]

I am developing an admin tool for a sports club (

http://www.bugpolo.com)

so someone other than myself can administer the competition details, i.e. add games and results, etc.

I am trying to use cookies and userID / password authentication to add a some form of security.

I have a script to do the following

1 Process the form data when the user signs in and check it against data in a text file.
2 If userID and password are correct then set cookies for both parameters.
3 Then perform ==> print "Location: admin_menu.cgi\n\n";

The issue I have is that the cookies are not being set and therefore I am looping between the logon page and the "back-end" page completing steps 1-3 above.

The excerpt of code I have for setting cookies is . . .

...
use CGI::Cookie;

$c = new CGI::Cookie(-name => "bp_username",
-path => "/",
-expires => "+10M",
-value => "$uname"

print "Set-Cookie: ",$c->as_string,"\n";

$c = new CGI::Cookie(-name => "bp_password",
-path => "/",
-expires => "+10M",
-value => "$pw"

print "Set-Cookie: ",$c->as_string,"\n";
print "Location: admin_menu.cgi\n\n";

Can anyone please advise where I am going wrong.

I am new to CGI programming so any suggestions for improvement will also be gratefully received.

Thanks

Nige (kiwi bloke !)