getting cookies from a library

[Orlando Andico]

hello all,

i want to "library'fy" some routines into a .pm
(instead of putting it in global.asa)

now i need to grab some cookie
$Request->Cookies("some-large-cookie-name");

i actually want to hide this cookie invocation in the library .pm so that the actual program source doesn't have it (an aesthetic thing). so instead of every page having that cookie line, there's just a simple function call.

problem: $Request object doesn't exist in the .pm
i also tried
$cooky = $Apache::ASP::Request->Cookies("some-large-cookie-name");

which compiles correctly but doesn't work.

or is the only solution to hide the function inside global.asa?