Set Cookie and Redirect

[NigeW]

I am creating an admin tool with username/password authentication.

If the username/password combination are correct I want to set a cookie for the variables and then redirect to the main administratio menu.

My code is :

# Set Redirection page
$url="

http://www.mydomain/admin/adminmenu.cgi";

$cookie1 = new CGI::Cookie(-name=>'username', -value=>$FORM{"username"});
$cookie2 = new CGI::Cookie(-name=>'password', -value=>$FORM{"password"});

print $query->redirect(-location=> $url, -cookie=>[$cookie1,$cookie2]);

I get an Internal Server error message.

I have set the permissions on the file to 755.

Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong please ??

Thanks

Nige
kiwi-kid

 

[siberian]

What does your error log say?

I have never tried this but you may not be able to set cookies in a redirect (NOT SURE ABOUT THIS!)

If this is the case you should post to a page, set the cookies and have that page then issue the redirect.

I'd do it with the CGI

if(cookiepassword&&cookieusername) { redirect }
else { set the cookie info after checking login }

Thats psuedo-code

 

[NigeW]

I've finally figured it out - here's my code :

my $query = new CGI;

my $Redirect = '

http://domainname/admin/adminmenu.cgi';

$cookie1 = $query->cookie(-name=>'username', -value=> $uname);

$cookie2 = $query->cookie(-name=>'password', -value=> $pw);

print $query->redirect(-uri => $Redirect, -cookie => [$cookie1,$cookie2]);

Hope it helps others out who have experienced the same frustrating issues . . .

Nigel Wilson
"kiwi-kid"

http://www.potentialunlimited.co.nz