merlin — Sat, 21 Apr 2001 12:56:52 +0000

i'm not sure, if cookies are the right way for your problem?
don't forget, user can ignore or delete your cookies, with that, they'd be able to vote several times for the poll. but i'm not sure, if there is another way to prevent that.

merlin — Sat, 21 Apr 2001 12:52:56 +0000

using cgi with perl:

setting two different cookies:

use strict; 
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Cookie;

	my $title = "cookie1name";
	my $storycookie = "cookie2name";

	my $titlecookie = cookie(
	        -NAME    => $titlecookiename,
		-VALUE   => "$list{'title'}",
		-PATH    => '/',
		-EXPIRES => "+60d",
		);

	my $storycookie = cookie(
		-NAME    => $storycookiename,
		-VALUE   => "$list{'story'}",
		-PATH    => '/',
#		-DOMAIN  => 'localhost',
		-EXPIRES => "+60d",
		);

print "Set-Cookie: $titlecookie\n";
print "Set-Cookie: $storycookie\n";

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in this example i put the userinput of form-field 'title' and 'story' into two cookies. if they come back to my site, the input is already there, using:

my ($titlecookie, $storycookie);
$titlecookie = $query->cookie("cookie1name");
$storycookie = $query->cookie("cookie2name");

if you wanna know, what -path, -expires stands for, read this FAQ.

for more information, try the cookiecentral

good luck with baking. i needed quite a long time to get them ready, but know, i really like them!