[thelist] cookies in perl/cgi

[John Snippe]

On 7/24/00,  regarding " Re: [thelist] cookies in perl/cgi ",  Adrian
Fischer offered the following:

>Again ..thanks Anthony,
>
>I finally got it so that I can set a cookie but I want it to expire when the
>browser is closed.  I am setting using the date as you suggested :
>print "Set-Cookie: approved=YES; expires=Tue-25-Jul-2000 00:00:00 GMT;
>
>Could you please explain the format for getting it to expire when the
>browser closes?
>
>>   #Setting Cookie
>>   print "Content-type: text/html\n";
>>   print "Set-Cookie: CookieName=Value; expires=$varGMTExpireDate
>GMT;path=/; \n\n";
>
>
>Geeze...I hope I can sort out how to read the cookie easier than I managed
>to work out how to set it.

Not betting the house on my answer here:  don't set an expiration time at
all.  That will kill the cookie at the end of the browser session.