CGICookie(3)

💖 CGICookie(3) 💖

okay bestie, so you know how there's this whole manual section CGICookie(3)? Yeah. That's this one. It's a Perl module page, user-contributed and everything, and it is so much cooler than it sounds. Sit down, grab a lil snack 🍓, and let's get into it.

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✨ NAME ✨

QWizard::Storage::CGICookie — it stores data in web cookies. Requires javascript. 🍪✨

no fr, that's the whole vibe. it's giving "I put your stuff in a cookie" and honestly? iconic.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

here's the little three-line moment that tells you everything:

my $st = new QWizard::Storage::CGICookie();
$st->set('var', 'value');
$st->get('var');

like. make one. set a thing. get a thing. that's it. that's the whole relationship. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what does it actually do, bestie? It stores data that you hand to it inside of web cookies. Simple as that.

But here's the tea ☕ — it requires javascript so that the cookies can be set from anywhere, including after the HTTP headers have already been sent. Yeah. That's the whole reason it needs JS. Because once those headers are out the door, normal cookie-setting is like, not happening. So javascript is doing the heavy lifting here. no cap.

lowkey important: if you were hoping to use this without javascript, that is simply not the vibe. javascript is required. periodt.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Wes Hardaker, hardaker@users.sourceforge.net — the main character who wrote this. 🫶

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• perl(1) — yes, the classic. the mothership. go read her.
• Net-Policy: http://net-policy.sourceforge.net/ — the whole project this belongs to, go peek 💜

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and that's the page, bestie!! ✨ This was CGICookie(3) from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, and I hope your cookies are always set and your headers are never a problem. mwah 💖🎀🦋