How to force Perl to read $ENV{'HTTP_COOKIE'} values again?

[ttest]

I have a line in the beginning of my script to set some cookie using HTTP header.

Somewhere in my script, I have to read the value of $ENV{'HTTP_COOKIE'}. But $ENV{'HTTP_COOKIE'} does not contain the value I set using the HTTP header. Is there a way to force Perl to refresh the value of $ENV{'HTTP_COOKIE'} (ask it to retrieve cookies from browser again).

 

[mahaMutant]

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[MikeLacey]

Hmmmm.

This will only be available to a new instance of Perl. What about another Perl script which prints the value of an environment variable? Something like this:

$env_var = shift;
print $ENV{$env_var}, "\n";

This could then be called in your main Perl script like this:

chomp($ENV{'HTTP_COOKIE'} = `get_env.pl 'HTTP_COOKIE'`);

Where get_env.pl is the two line script above. Mike
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