Question

I have cookies set when the user log in to the application. Yet I need to modify that when the user updates his profile. Can anyone tell me how to update an existing cookies?
Thanks in advance.(I’m using perl).

Answer 1

CGI::Cookie is all you need.

To get the cookies sent to your application:

my %cookies = CGI::Cookie->fetch;
my $foo = $cookies{foo}->value;

If you’re using CGI.pm to generate your headers, then sending a Set-Cookie header just requires passing in the CGI::Cookie object:

my $q = CGI->new;
print $q->header( -cookie => $foo );

Otherwise, use whatever header-manipulation interface is provided by the web application framework you are using.