Re: Perl Authentication Handler and Cookie Issue

[Sumit Shah]

Hello,

I have modified my code to handle such scenarios. But the handler still 
fails to fetch the cookies. The browser does pass the cookies. I can see 
them in IEHTTPHeaders. I would appreciate if someone could let me know 
why this could happen?

Thanks
Sumit

Robert Landrum wrote:
Sumit Shah wrote:
Hello,

I have a Mod Perl authentication handler and it needs to retrieve the 
session id from a cookie. It is unable to retrieve any cookies and I 
get the following error. It does not even print any of the cookies. I 
would appreciate any help with this.


     my $token = $cookies{'SessionID'}->value;
     chomp($token);
     $log->error("3. Session ID ==> $token");


You're trying to call a method against a value that may or may not 
exist.  That's a big no-no.

if(defined $cookies{'SessionID'}) {
  $token = $cookies{'SessionID'}->value;
}
else {
  $log->error("No SessionID cookie");
}

Rob