Development Tools : CGI : Scripts and Programs : Cookies

A cookie is simply a small (up to 20 times 4k per domain) bit of info which servers can store in a browser's client. This script shows an example of how to set and retrieve a cookie.

It is a technical example with subs for handling cookies.

This is a demonstration script of the 'triple dot cookie' vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape. Triple dot cookies can be used to completely by-pass the domain restrictions for cookies in those browsers.

Cookie-lib.pl is a perl library, written in the spirit of cgi-lib.pl to help developers use cookies easily and effectively in web applications.

This script demonstrates handling input to CGI scripts in a convenient and consistent way. All of the Form, URL, and Cookie input is processed and placed into an array.

Remeber Me! A versitle script that offers complete cookie management. The script will allow you to place, modify, display stored content or delete a cookie when a web surfer visits a webpage. The script can been used for promotional offers (coupons), provide new content for repeat web surfers, to bypass membership login pages, sales tracking of referer websites, Flash and other media management, and as a simple welcome back page.

Perl code snippets to retrieve the cookies. After the subroutine is run, all the user's available cookies will populate the %cookie associate array.