Lateley I feel like I'm trying to set a record for most questions asked. Anyway, In an admin section of a script I'm putting together I'm using cookies for admin login as follows:
sub write_cookie{
print "Content-type: text/html\n";
print "Set-Cookie: usname='$in{'username'}'; expires=''Thursday, 1-Jan-1970 12:00:00 GMT;';\n";
print "Set-Cookie: psword='$in{'userword'}'; expires=''Thursday, 1-Jan-1970 12:00:00 GMT;';\n";
print "Set-Cookie: rank='$ref->{'rank'}'; expires='Thursday, 1-Jan-1970 12:00:00 GMT;';\n\n";
}

The problem is, the cookies are being written from one directory and for each directory above that I want to enter I'm having to write a cookie for that directory also(log in again). Thiings are great once I've logged in to each directory(and have a cookie for each directory. Is there some way to write a cookie(am I missing an ingredient) so that if, say, the cookie is written in the /admin directory it will also be valid in, say /admin/processing directory? I log into admin dir but when I go to enter the processing dir it makes me write another cookie(log in again).

The biggest problem I had was the fact that the cookies weren't being read because of a goofup in the date format. Strange because they were showing  up in Opera but that was it. I'm still trying to figure out what the deal is as far as reading the cookies is but it has to be in the login script---next victim of attack. BTW---I noticed at the end of the string for setting the cookies you had \n\r\n\r What are the r's for--never saw that one before. Thanx---have a nice day, Dave