Cookies in PerlAccessHandlers

[Alec Smith]

In a PerlAccessHandler I have code similar to the following:

sub handler
{
    my $r = shift;
    my ($cgi, $cookie);

    use CGI;
    $cgi = new CGI;
    $cookie = $cgi->cookie(-name => 'test');

    # For debugging only
    open(TEST, ">>/tmp/accesstest");
    flock(TEST,2);
    print TEST "cookie = $cookie";
    close(test);

    # This if block is not included in the PerlHandler version
    if ($cookie eq '')
    {
        return FORBIDDEN;
    }
}

However, nothing is written to the log file and the forbidden screen is
displayed. The exact same code works fine if its in a regular mod_perl module
installed using PerlHandler. Why is the code working inside a PerlHandler
module and not in PerlAccessHandler?

The system in question is running Apache 1.3.19+mod_perl 1.25+Perl
5.005_03 (RedHat 6.2).

Thanks,
Alec