Currently I use a javascript to embed a cookie in a SSI page:

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<script language=\"javascript\">\n";
print " document.cookie = \"id=valid; path=/\"\n";
print "</script>\n";

The script outputs the cookie js to the SSI page and is called as:

<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/script.cgi"-->

Question is, is there a better way to do this without javascript? But it has to be via the script.

Dan

It is possible to set cookies via the script before sending the content-type header. Try using cookie-lib.pl.

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Charles Capps
http://solareclipse.net/

Thanks Charles. But it does not seem to work when the script is called in SSI. What I've done instead is insert a meta Set-Cookie command:

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<meta HTTP-EQUIV=\"Set-Cookie\" content=\"id=valid; path=/\">\n";

This works as expected.

Dan

Ah, forgot that SSI sends the content-type header first.

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Charles Capps
http://solareclipse.net/

Right on target. However, given that we are talking SSIs, the meta set-cookie commands do the trick. I always forget about the power of meta tags.

Dan