rocknbil - 4:28 pm on Dec 8, 2011 (gmt 0)

Why don't you just set and read the cookie in Perl?

At any rate, if the cookie is set, even in Javascript, it's set **in the browser.** It shouldn't matter, as long as it's on the same domain. On the next page* after the cookie is set, you should be able to do something like

# note that fred and Fred are not the same
my $cookievalue = &readCookie('Fred');
if ($cookievalue ne '') { print "cookie value is $cookievalue"; }
else { print "cookie not found, try reloading this page.*"; }

sub readCookie { 
 my ($cname,@cookiegroups,$grp,$cookkey,$cookval); 
 $cname = shift(@_); 
 if ($ENV{'HTTP_COOKIE'}) { 
 $ENV{'HTTP_COOKIE'} =~ s/\s+//g; 
 (@cookiegroups) = split(/;/,$ENV{'HTTP_COOKIE'}); 
 foreach $grp (@cookiegroups) { 
 ($cookkey,$cookval) = split (/=/,$grp); 
 if ($cookkey eq $cname){ return $cookval; } 
 } 
 } 
 return ''; # means no matching cookie found 
}