Re: Perl Authentication Handler and Cookie Issue

[Robert Landrum <suppressed>]

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