Perl Authentication Handler and Cookie Issue

[Sumit Shah <suppressed>]

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.

Can't call method "value" on an undefined value at 
/usr/bin/perl/lib/site_perl/5.005/CAS/SSO.pm line 30.

Below is the code and the related httpd.conf entry
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<Location /forms>
   AuthName realm
   AuthType Basic
   PerlAuthenHandler CAS::SSO
   Require valid-user
</Location>


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package CAS::SSO;
use strict;
use Apache::Constants qw(OK DONE REDIRECT DECLINED);
use Apache::Log();
use Socket;
use CGI;
use CGI::Cookie;
use IO::Socket;

$CAS::SSO::VERSION = "1.00";

sub handler {
     my $r = shift;
     my ( $log ) = $r->log;
     $log->error("1. Inside Handler.");

     my $invalidVal = 'INVALID';

     my $uri = $r->uri;

     $log->error("2. Requested URI ==> $uri");

     my %cookies = CGI::Cookie->fetch($r);

     foreach (keys %cookies){
               $log->error("Cookie: $cookies{$_}");
     }

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

     return OK;
}